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1. www.nytimes.com › games › wordleWordle - The New York Times

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   Wordle Get 6 chances to guess a 5-letter word. Get 6 chances to guess a 5-letter word. Subscribe Log in Play. October 27, 2024. No. 1226. Edited by Tracy Bennett ...

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2. www.reuters.com › legal › transactionalMeet the Wordle player who helped sell the game to the New ...

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   Feb 1, 2022 · Patterson said his go-to starter words in the game are RATES and TEARS. (Reuters) - One fan of the popular online word game Wordle didn't have to guess the terms of its sale to the New York Times ...

3. abovethelaw.com › 2022 › 02Lawyer Who Landed Wordle/New York Times Deal Shares Gaming ...

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   Feb 2, 2022 · Lawyer Who Landed Wordle/New York Times Deal Shares Gaming Strategies Maybe these can help you win! By Staci Zaretsky on February 2, 2022 at 4:46 PM February 2, 2022 at 3:00 PM.

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4. www.bbc.com › news › business-60208463Wordle inventor 'overwhelmed' as New York Times buys game - BBC

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   Feb 1, 2022 · The inventor of word game sensation Wordle has spoken of being overwhelmed by its success, following a sale to the New York Times (NYT). Software engineer Josh Wardle released the free simple ...

5. www.theverge.com › 23660809 › wordle-new-york-timesHow Wordle lives on at The New York Times

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   Mar 29, 2023 · The New York Times grew interested and bought Wordle for an undisclosed seven-figure sum. Zoe Bell speaking at the 2023 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Image: GDC

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7. www.msn.com › en-us › news‘It has to be a little bit challenging’: Inside the ... - MSN

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   After the New York Times acquired Wordle from its creator, software engineer Josh Wardle, in January 2022, its player base grew to tens of millions. There’s a lot of strategy behind the puzzle ...

8. www.dw.com › en › german-court-rejects-new-yorkGerman court rejects New York Times case over Wordle rights

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   Jul 18, 2024 · Advertisement. A German court has thrown out a case of legal action by the New York Times Company attempting to prevent a local puzzle maker from using the name "Wordle." The publisher acquired ...

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   What happened to wordle?

   • At first, Wordle was mainly enjoyed by friends and family until Wardle expanded the title to a larger audience in October 2021 and went viral, attracting millions of players a day. The New York Times grew interested and bought Wordle for an undisclosed seven-figure sum. Zoe Bell speaking at the 2023 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

   How Wordle lives on at The New York Times

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   Who is the New York Times editor for wordle?

   • The New York Times assigned a dedicated editor for Wordle, Tracy Bennett, in November 2022. “Wardle’s original word list forms the bulk of the database of words we’re accessing, though we’re not running them in the order he had originally arranged them,” Bennett told CNN.

   ‘It has to be a little bit challenging’: Inside the world of Wordle at

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   Did the New York Times games play a role in wordle?

   • The New York Times Games, Mr Wardle said, played a "big part" in Wordle's origins, "so this step feels very natural". In January, Mr Wardle told the BBC's Today programme he had come up with a prototype for the game in 2013 but his friends had not been keen on it.

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   Why did 'wordle' get a 1000th word?

   • Wordle’s 1000th puzzle was one of the words switched out from Wardle’s original lineup, but more because the original was “a little boring,” Mason said. The Times didn’t theme the new word either, after Bennett experimented with a themed Wordle related to Thanksgiving — FEAST — in her first month on the job.

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   Why do people visit the New York Times to play wordle?

   • In audience research, the Times found that younger players who tend to spend money on games would visit the Times just to play Wordle and that these players were entirely new to The New York Times. “That traffic coming to our site really helped our subscriptions last year,” Bell said.

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   Will wordle help revitalize a struggling news industry?

   • Wordle has more daily active users than the crossword puzzle, sudoku, or Spelling Bee, according to the Times, though it would not share exact numbers. The hope is that Wordle will help revitalize a struggling news industry. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that, by 2031, the journalism job market will shrink by 4,100 positions.

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