The popular word game 'Wordle' is acquired by the New York Times



Wordle announced that the browser game 'Wordle', which guesses five-letter English words based on hints while entering the alphabet, was acquired by the New York Times Company, which publishes the American daily newspaper The New York Times. Announced by Josh Wardle , the developer of.



Wordle Is Joining The New York Times Games | The New York Times Company
https://www.nytco.com/press/wordle-new-york-times-games/

Developer Wardle was interviewed by the New York Times in January 2022, in which he talked about how Wordle was developed. According to it, Wardle, who was originally a software engineer at the online bulletin board site Reddit, developed Wordle based on the idea that came up around 2013 at the time when it was floating due to the pandemic of the new coronavirus. is.

It seems that only a limited number of people were playing when Wordle was released around October 2021, but when the function to share the results on Twitter was installed in mid-December 2021, the Wordle player was seen. Wardle says that has increased.



Since then, Wordle has become so popular that it has reached 300,000 players in just two months. It was also reported that Apple wiped out a large number of copy apps appearing in the App Store for the first time in overheating.

Immediately after it was reported that a lot of copy apps of the popular word guessing game 'Wordle' were flooded in Apple's App Store, they disappeared all at once --GIGAZINE



According to Wardle, 'Wordle will be free for new and existing players for some time after being acquired by the New York Times, and the game content will not change.' It is said that the play data so far will be maintained even after the acquisition, but there is a possibility that some registration requirements or paywalls will be set. The New York Times has not disclosed the details of the acquisition, but states that it has acquired 'in the low 7-digit range' in US dollars, that is, in the hundreds of millions of yen in Japanese yen.

The New York Times Company said, 'The New York Times, which has provided various puzzle games since 1942, wanted more people to enjoy puzzles, and as a result, it became an exciting and social phenomenon in this uneasy time. We are pleased to announce the acquisition of the new word game Wordle. The New York Times aims to be an indispensable subscription for all English-speaking people who want to understand the world. ' I am.

'I'm grateful that there's something just fun online. I'm not trying to do anything suspicious with your personal information or eyeballs. It's just a fun game. That's it. '

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