The popular online word game Wordle is to get its own primetime TV show next year, broadcaster NBC has confirmed. Filmed in Manchester, England, and set to be shown in both the UK and US, the programme will be hosted by Savannah Guthrie, who anchors the American network's morning news show Today.

Daily brainteaser Wordle will be getting a gameshow hosted by Savannah Guthrie - five years after the daily puzzle was released

Wordle, the popular online word game, is coming to our screens as a game show.

Quite how it’s taken half a decade for this incredibly obvious idea to come together is anyone’s guess, but we first heard that Fallon was pitching a primetime game show based on the New York Times-owned puzzle in October last year.

News organizations are racing to add puzzles and games to their digital offerings, hoping to replicate the success of a strategy The New York Times has been quietly perfecting for years -- and is now taking to primetime television.

I often organized my day around Wordle and had a daily alarm, so I wouldn't forget to play. I had a 222-day streak, and when I finally broke it by running out of guesses, I was heartbroken. However, I realized that the feeling of obligation had stolen my love of doing the puzzle.

Wordle, the popular puzzle game, is to be turned into a TV quiz show hosted by Savannah Guthrie. NBC, the United States broadcaster, said it had approved to a prime-time game show based on the web-based puzzle, which challenges players to deduce the same five-letter word in six guesses or less.