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The 1,000th Wordle puzzle ran in March, a milestone for the popular game where players tend to stick to a formula, with 2.8 million people using the same starting word every day as proof.
The New York Times bought Wordle from Wardle for "an undisclosed price in the low seven figures" last month. The game has remained free and not behind the Times' paywall so far.
The New York Times Company's first-quarter financial results prove what we've all known all along: people really like Wordle. Josh Wardle made a fun little word game for his partner, shared it ...
The New York Times is fighting off Wordle “clones” — arguing that numerous games inspired by the mega-popular word-guessing game infringe on its copyright protections. Hundreds of copycats ...
In January 2021, he returned to his 2013 prototype to create a word game for his partner, Palak Shah. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he and Shah had played many New York Times games including Spelling Bee, and he wanted to make a new word game that they could play together. Shah played a vital role in the game's development before it went public.
The New York Times has used video games as part of its journalistic efforts, among the first publications to do so, [13] contributing to an increase in Internet traffic; [14] In the late 1990s and early 2000s, The New York Times began offering its newspaper online, and along with it the crossword puzzles, allowing readers to solve puzzles on their computers.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 January 2025. Word game 2021 video game Wordle Developer(s) Josh Wardle Publisher(s) Josh Wardle (2021–2022) The New York Times Games (since 2022) Platform(s) Browser, Mobile app Release October 2021 Genre(s) Word game Mode(s) Single-player Wordle is a web-based word game created and developed by ...
The New York Times' Associate Puzzle Editor Wyna Liu has been credited for helping to create the game. But when she shared a link to it on Twitter, Victoria Coren-Mitchell, host of the popular ...