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'The New York Times' buys Wordle
The New York Times has acquired Wordle, a simple word guessing game, for an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures, the newspaper announced Monday.
The game, created by Josh Wardle, will initially continue to be free to play.
Wordle, which was released in October 2021, is a daily word puzzle that has soared in popularity, amassing millions of daily players within months.
To play the game, players have six tries to guess a five-letter word. Many users choose to share their results — a grid of green, yellow and black boxes — on social media.
Also at CNN.
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Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday February 02 2022, @02:42PM (1 child)
There was a UK games show on the the one-eyed box in the corner a few years ago that was based on this very game. It is certainly not an original idea.
I'm surprised that he was paid so much - there might yet be a few legal challenges to come.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday February 02 2022, @04:02PM
Perhaps, but all of those legal challenges may now be on the NYT's shoulders. NYT is also a much bigger target, so may be more likely to draw fire.
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