I can't find the article I first read about this in but the Wordle wikipedia page mentions a couple of antecedents with near-identical gameplay, including a TV

I can't find the article I first read about this in but the Wordle wikipedia page mentions a couple of antecedents with near-identical gameplay, including a TV game show called Lingo ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordle