Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica ) The New York Times has altered the Wordle solutions list to avoid an answer for today’s puzzle that would have “seem[ed] closely connected to a major recent news event, ” as the company put it in the public note this morning . Today’s originally intended solution, FETUS, […]
Enlarge / All aboard. (credit: Aurich Lawson) Regular readers may remember how the viral success of Wordle led to an unexpected flood of downloads for an unrelated, six-year-old iOS game that also happened to be called Wordle! (note the exclamation point.) Those readers may also remember how mobile developer Steven Cravotta pledged to donate some […]
Enlarge / Wordle ‘s value to The New York Times isn’t much of a puzzle. The New York Times’ seven-figure purchase of viral hit Wordle in January was “incredibly valuable” to the company and was responsible for “an unprecedented tens of millions of new customers to The Times, ” the media giant said in announcing […]
Enlarge / A word game that’s as addictive as a “DRUG. ” The viral success of Wordle has reminded the world of how compelling the good word game can be (even if that game is not exactly new ). But if you’re anything like me, the every day Wordle grind has probably started to feel […]
Enlarge / Josh Wardle speaks at the 2022 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco about his gaming sensation Wordle. (credit: Sam Machkovech) SAN FRANCISCO—Josh Wardle, creator of the game Wordle, arguably holds a world record for the fastest sale of a massive new game the instant it became a worldwide phenomenon. Hence, his presentation at […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) Wordle Archive—a website that let users play through hundreds of previous daily five-letter Wordle puzzles—has been taken down at the request of Wordle owner The New York Times. The archival site, which offered a backward-looking play feature that’s not available in the NYT’s official version of Wordle, had […]
Enlarge / Windle is a clone of Wordle meant to fit in with old Windows games like Minesweeper and Chip’s Challenge . (credit: Dialup. net ) If you thought that Wordle was old news, here’s something even older: Dialup. net has created and released Windle , a Wordle clone designed to run on Windows 3. […]
Enlarge / The future is now. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Anyone who has been on Twitter in recent weeks is probably intimately familiar with the grids of Wordle solutions clogging up everyone’s timelines. But those tweets give more information than it would seem. Collecting and analyzing data from millions of these Wordle result tweets […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) When the New York Times purchased viral daily word game hit Wordle for a “low seven figures” price late last month, the new owner promised that “no changes will be made to its gameplay. ” But while Wordle ‘s basic guessing system remains unaltered, it turns out that the Times has […]
The popular word game Wordle just saved a life! Denyse Holt , an 80-year-old woman living in Lincolnwood, Illinois was sound asleep on early Sunday morning when a naked man broke into her home. She woke up to find him standing by her bed, bleeding, and holding a pair of scissors. According to the Washington […]