• Wordle is a web-based word game created and developed by Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle. Players have six attempts to guess a five-letter word, with...
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  • Josh Wardle (section Wordle)
    engineer who developed the viral web-based word game Wordle. The New York Times Company acquired Wordle from Wardle in late January 2022. Wardle lives in...
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    monetizing Wordle by implementing a paywall mounted; Wordle is a client-side browser game and can be played offline by downloading its webpage. Wordle moved...
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    It is the second-most-played game that is published by the Times, behind Wordle. In Connections, the goal is to divide a grid of sixteen words into four...
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    Quordle (category Wordle clones)
    a 2022 word game developed and published by Freddie Meyer. Inspired by Wordle and Dordle, Quordle tasks the player to solve four puzzles at once. In January...
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  • Machiavellian version of Wordle", and Hughes described it as an "experiment to find the most difficult [...] variant of Wordle", comparing it to one of...
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  • an editor and puzzle editor. She edits The New York Times Games products Wordle and Strands. Bennett was born Tracy Pinkham and grew up in Maine. Her parents...
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  • Worldle (category Wordle clones)
    York Times, current owner of Wordle an attempt at trademarking Worldle was made, depite only being one letter off from Wordle. While Worldle's creator claims...
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  • monetizing Wordle by implementing a paywall mounted; Wordle is a client-side browser game and can be played offline by downloading its webpage. Wordle moved...
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  • "Cambridge Dictionary word of the year 2022 is a nod to Wordle". 17 November 2022. "Wordle frustration inspires Cambridge Dictionary's word of the year"...
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  • Absurdle (category Wordle clones)
    puzzle word game created by Sam Hughes, commonly known as qntm. It is a Wordle clone in which the player attempts to guess a five-letter word while the...
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  • Heardle (category Wordle clones)
    music game created by London-based Omakase Studios. Inspired by the game Wordle, it tested players' knowledge of music. Gameplay involved attempting to...
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  • Nerdle (category Wordle clones)
    daily number game inspired by Wordle and the rules explained". i. Retrieved November 15, 2023. "How Nerdle went from Wordle with numbers up to a million...
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    ET Wordle fans are returning to childhood games including Mastermind, which tests players' logic skills using color codes, similar to what Wordle does...
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  • Games involving creating words that meet specific conditions, such as Wordle, Word Ladder. As part of the modern "Golden Age" of board games, designers...
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    Street View imagery (as a reference to GeoGuessr), inserting the day's Wordle answer, typing the best move in a generated chess position using algebraic...
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  • minor altercation Controversy Squabble (video game), a battle royale-based Wordle-type game Squabble Creek (Kentucky) Squabble Creek (Texas) "The Tale of...
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  • cryptograms and several word puzzle games, including hangman, Scrabble, Wordle and the television game show Wheel of Fortune. One of the earliest descriptions...
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    February 2022, Sanderson determined that the best starting word in the game Wordle was CRANE using information theory. Later, he stated that the code he wrote...
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  • Winkie, Luke (October 1, 2023). "The Trendy New Trivia Game That's Like Wordle for Straight Men". Slate. Archived from the original on November 11, 2023...
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    Celtics. On February 25, 2022, a game similar to the word guessing game Wordle titled Poeltl was released. In the game, which is named after Pöltl, players...
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    library of games. Strands puzzles are edited by Tracy Bennett, who also edits Wordle for The New York Times. Strands released into beta on March 4, 2024, playable...
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  • synthetic voice and video developer. In July 2022, Spotify acquired Heardle, a Wordle-inspired music trivia game, for an undisclosed amount; Heardle was shut...
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  • Squabble (video game) (category Wordle clones)
    royale and word game created by Ottomated. The game combines the gameplay of Wordle, a word game created by Josh Wardle and bought by The New York Times, and...
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    owned by Mattel) Trivial Pursuit Trivial Pursuit Infinite (inspired by Wordle) Trouble Hasbro also produces many variations of most of their games. For...
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    the website. One of the games included is "Quina", which is similar to Wordle, where players try to guess a five-letter European Portuguese word in nine...
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    in the title, and on release, the game quickly became an Internet meme. Wordle – A word-guessing game similar to Jotto and Mastermind, where the player...
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  • Group (NYTLicensing) Times Books T Brand Studio The Athletic Wirecutter Wordle The New York Times Building (58%) with Brookfield Asset Management Scroll...
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    Mastermind and the word-based version predates the hit word games Lingo and Wordle.[citation needed] A version known as MOO was widely available for early...
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    Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2024-07-19. Avery, Dan (21 February 2022). "Beyond Wordle: The New York Times Games Section, Explained". CNET. Retrieved 9 February...
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