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

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   Play Wordle, the popular free word puzzle game with no ads, and compare your performance with other players.

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     In 2014, we introduced The Mini Crossword — followed by...

2. news.sky.com › story › ampWordle: How a simple online game became a million-dollar ...

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   Feb 2, 2022 · Wordle, the viral phenomenon that has got hundreds of thousands of us sharing green and yellow emoji squares on social media every day, has been bought by the New York Times.

   • Author: Gemma Peplow

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

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   Mar 29, 2023 · At GDC 2023, executive producer Zoe Bell explained how the viral phenomenon Wordle has settled in after being acquired by The New York Times.

4. www.nytimes.com › wordle-bot-year-in-reviewSeven Things We Learned Analyzing 515 Million Wordles

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   Dec 17, 2023 · Extra guesses needed to solve Wordle, compared with starting with SLATE. Based on 515 million Wordle games completed between Dec. 1, 2022, and Nov. 30, 2023. Even worse: While 1.7 percent...

5. www.chron.com › story-behind-wordle-16825701The story behind Wordle—the wildly popular online word game

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   Feb 4, 2022 · The Wordle story, that of a simple online word game, begins with a software engineer who created a relatively self-explanatory game that's quick and free to play, and the shareable...

   • Occupation: Freelance Writer

6. time.com › 6143715Wordle Creator Josh Wardle Talks NYT Sale, Game's Success - TIME

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   Feb 1, 2022 · The Wordle creator Josh Wardle talks about why he created the game, the internet's ethos, and why he sold to the New York Times

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   Who invented wordle?

   • Josh Wardle of Wordle. Illustration by TIME A couple of hours after the New York Times announced on Monday that it had acquired the online word game known as Wordle, its inventor was still looking for the right word—this time, for his emotions. “My biggest sense, actually, right now, isn’t joy.

   Wordle Creator Josh Wardle Talks NYT Sale, Game's Success - TIME

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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.

   How Wordle lives on at The New York Times

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   Will 'wordle' move to the New York Times?

   • The newspaper, which has popular word games such as Spelling Bee and its crossword puzzle, has assured fans that "at the time it moves to The New York Times, Wordle will be free to play for new and existing players, and no changes will be made to its gameplay".

   Wordle: How a simple online game became a million-dollar viral

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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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   How many people play wordle a day?

   • Millions of people play Wordle every day, and share, discuss and debate how they tried to win. For the first time, we’ve analyzed how players performed in half a billion of those Wordle games over the past year and compared their results with the strategies that our WordleBot recommends. Here are seven things we learned: 1.

   Seven Things We Learned Analyzing 515 Million Wordles

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   When did wordle become popular?

   • A person plays "Wordle" on their phone in Arlington, Virginia, on May 9, 2022. The word game was bought by The New York Times in early 2022 after exploding in popularity. Woman plays Wordle on her smartphone from the living room of her home using just three guesses on April 21, 2022, in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

   The story behind Wordle—the wildly popular online word game

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8. www.nytimes.com › wordle-word-game-creatorWordle Is a Love Story - The New York Times

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   Jan 3, 2022 · Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn, knew his partner loved word games, so he created a guessing game for just the two of them. As a play on his last name, he named it Wordle.