These are weirdly interesting times. The world is divided over almost everything, from vaccines to stand taken by sportspeople, online freedom to streaming shows. But in these trying times there appears to be a uniting force, something people around the world are enjoying a great deal, no matter one’s political inclination. Called Wordle, people around the world — at least 300,000 of them — are logging in each morning to figure out a five-letter word that keeps changing every 24 hours.

A new study by gaming experts, Onlineslots.com, analysed individual players’ scores from almost a quarter of a million posts on social media. The data has revealed that guessing the right word first time around on Wordle is four times harder than getting into Mensa.

Some of the findings are — only 1/200 people get the word right on the first try, a quarter of players need at least four tries before getting it right, and interest has exploded by a 3,700 per cent rise in people talking about the game on Twitter compared to the previous month.

The analysis of the 225,000 social media mentions of the game shows that those posts have reached a staggering 246 million people around the world. There are over 2,500 words lined up for the daily challenge, however there are around 158,000 five-letter words in the English dictionary, the equivalent of approximately eight years of non-stop gameplay.

And the study also shows the gender split among players — 63 per cent male and 37 per cent female and the top 10 countries it is most popular in are the USA, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, Ireland, Germany, Brazil and Israel.

The gameplay is simple. You have six attempts to guess a five letter word. With each entry, the game lets you know if your characters are in the right place, if they’re in the wrong place, or if they don’t appear in the word at all.

In case you haven’t played the ad-free game, visit www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/.