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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 Freeman on Wednesday February 02 2022, @04:00PM
Mastermind is a fun little game and I've played various versions of the same game concept. Wordle is exactly like that, but with words. As posted below apparently it's popular, because social stuff. Still, it's a fun little game. Though, a fun little game, you get to play one time a day. I mean, I guess that's part of the appeal? I would definitely have jumped on the first low 7 figure buyout that I got. For something like that, especially. It's simple, probably didn't take the person/team a huge amount of time to produce and/or was done in their off time. Instant Millionaire, yes please.
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