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Wordle is a word puzzle game where the user must determine a 5-letter word based on clues from previous guesses. They have 6 chances to determine the correct word in order to be successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Josh Wardle was working at Reddit as an artist and product manager when he first came up with the idea for Wordle. (And yes, the name Wordle was intentionally designed as a play on his last name, Wardle).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He developed the first iteration of the game in 2011 but would not complete it until 2013. For the next 8 years, he and his partner would play the game without telling anyone. They viewed it as simply an enjoyable activity shared between the two of them. Following the feedback of some friends and colleagues, Wardle decided to post the game on his personal website. During the first month of the game going public, it had only 90 players however the next month saw the daily player count rise to 300,000 and two weeks later it hit 2 million daily users before being purchased by the New York Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Interestingly, before eventually selling the game, Wardle was actually paying up to $100 a month to keep the game public and free. The purchase of Wordle by the New York Times was estimated to be for at least $1 million dollars. Wardle currently generates no additional income from the game despite its daily player count now reaching 10 million users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wardle has now moved on from his position at Reddit and works as a software engineer at a Brooklyn-based art company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wordle is a word puzzle game where the user must determine a 5-letter word based on clues from previous guesses. They have 6 chances to…<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"