- The popular online word puzzle game Wordle has attracted millions of players in recent weeks.
- As interest in Wordle grew, the New York Times paid creator Josh Wardle “low numbers” for the game.
- With the popularity of Wordle, new branches of the original game appeared, including Archive and Alternative Math.
word It has only been a part of our online lives for a few weeks but for many, the popular puzzle game has become a well-meaning thing.
Developed by New York software engineer Josh WardleWardle, who launched the game in the fall of 2021, said Wardle’s role-playing audience had gone from just 90 on November 1 to 2 million by mid-January. Take Crunch.
Objective of the free game: Guess the hidden word of five letters within six attempts. With each attempt, any correct letter you get appears in a green square if it is in the right place. The letters appear in a yellow box if they are in the word but you haven’t thought of their correct location. Any letter not in the word gets a gray square.
As interest in the game grew, players began posting their scores on Twitter and Facebook, which helped attract more players — and draw disdain from non-players who are embittered by the viral spread of the game. Wordle results for posts in their social feeds.
then, New York times On January 31 he said that Pay the game creator Low Seven Digits price to get the game.
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Does it cost me to play Wordle?
No, at least not yet. a tweet From the NYTimes Wordplay account he said, “The game will remain free.”
However, in her story announcing the acquisition, New York times He said the game “will initially remain free for new and existing players.”
Paul Tassi wrote that this indicates a possible “expiration date” in the case of a free-to-play game, Senior Contributor to Forbes Games.
The Times will have to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of getting players to pay.
“You put it in a paywall and then people pay to run it,” he wrote. “But in the process, you’re going to get a huge amount of its users, and it takes away from one of its main appeals, ease of access, because it’s just a very basic browser game that can be accessed instantly and from anywhere.”
Some players on Twitter denounce the deal. “I was waiting for a big company to ruin the fun of Wordle, just like anything else,” wrote one user using the Twitter account @loveholliejo. “Here it is. It was cute while it lasted.”
But others congratulated Wardle, who told The Times Create the game for his partner who loves word games. User @Felgraf_Physicsone tweeted: “This is a life-changing amount of money.” “I wouldn’t be able to blame you even if they said they’d monetize right away. You made something, people enjoyed for free for a while, and you have no obligation to keep doing it.”
Will Wordle continue to track my score? Has the game changed?
That is the plan. But when the game moved to nytimes.com on Thursday, some people didn’t see their streaks and other stats when playing the game.
Times spokesman Jordan Cohen said: the edge On Friday, streaks and stats should be migrated for “most players, but” we’re seeing some reports of users continuing to encounter issues, and we’re investigating and interacting with those users. “
One of the obvious changes to the game is the phasing out of dirty words, which makes sense now that The Times owns the game.
Offensive words will always be removed from consideration. Director said Polygon. “Since we have just begun the transition of Wordle to The Times website, we are still in the process of removing these words from play.”
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What is a Wordle website?
Originally, Wordle was hosted at the web address powerlanguage.co.uk. Wardle said he got the name Take Crunchafter someone called him and his friends for using vulgar language, but calling it “the language of power”.
His new home is running The Times website (https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html). After the initial issue of players not seeing their stats when they played the game, The Times encouraged players to use the original Wordle URL and let the game redirect them to the new Times page.
What is a Wordle archive?
If you recently switched to Wordle, there is a way to go back and play previous puzzles, thanks Devang Thakkar, a doctoral student at Duke University who created the Wordle Archive of past puzzles.
Day remembrance said Twitter It’s “Like a lot of people on this site, I love my daily Wordles. But if I forget to do one, there’s no way to go back to it. So I decided to make one.”
As of Saturday (February 12), there are 238 Wordle puzzles. on remembrance Wordle archive site-You can play all of them.
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Are there other games like Wordle?
You only get one Wordle every 24 hours, so how do you stay busy the rest of the day? we will, USA TODAY’s Brett Molina found 4 games similar to Wordlewhich may strike your imagination.
Among them is one that may be of particular interest to fans of JRR Tolkien’s work: Lord of the Rings. The game also uses five letter words but it comes from the main script of Lord of the Rings.
And if you missed those dirty words that are being phased out from Wordle, there is slutwhich plays like Wordle but only uses vulgar language.
The latest play on Wrdle is Quordle, which made you try to reveal four – yes, four – words at the same time. Fortunately, I got a total of nine attempts to make it happen.
News about the game was trending this weekend on Twitter. Even Ahmir-Khalib Thompson, better known as Questlove, shared on the social network, “Want to see who’s bad? “Summer of the Soul (or When the Revolution Can’t Be Broadcast)”.
If you prefer numbers and equations over letters, go to What’s up?, which gives you six attempts to find a hidden arithmetic operation. When you use a number or a mathematical symbol – plus, minus, multiplication or division – the tiles change colors to let you know you’re on the right track, have the number, or logged in at the exact spot.
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