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The New York Times Buys Word Guessing Game "Wordle"

posted by janrinok on Wednesday February 02 2022, @04:45AM   

takyon writes:

'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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• Re:here (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 02 2022, @04:38PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 02 2022, @04:38PM (#1218015)

  Unless I'm missing something, it's just Mastermind, but with the colour pegs replaced by letters of a word, and their number increased from four to five.

  Wordle is like Mastermind but it is much easier because:

      * the game tells you which guesses are in the correct position
      * the secret is restricted to being a valid word (my impression is they are using the Scrabble wordlist)

  I played it a few times and found it very easy (the game has a "hard mode" but this does not make it hard). It might be a fun way to do vocabulary practice but the fact that you can only play once per day really limits its effectiveness.

  I'm honestly not sure what the fuss is about.

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