Proof that all the best projects are a labour of love: The creator of Wordle, Josh Wardle, originally made it for his partner after the two of them got hooked on the New York Times’ daily crossword.
After starting out as just a game for the creator’s girlfriend, Wordle continues to take Twitter by storm, with 88K tweets made today alone., or at the very least you know the name. Twitter certainly does and it seems its popularity is only growing.
This brings the total number of Wordle related tweets made since November 1 to 386,000. Impressive work for something that was originally only meant to be played by two people., Josh Wardle initially made the game for his partner, Palak Shah, after the two of them got hooked on the New York Times’ own spelling bee and daily crossword.
Shah was also responsible for narrowing down which words would be included in the game. Wardle explains that he went through every five-letter word in the English language and tasked Shah with picking the ones she recognised.
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