Since there is only one Wordle every day, many players also use alternatives. For German “Wordle” fans there is “Wördl” and “6mal5”, where German terms can be guessed.
“Heardle” isn’t about words, it’s about songs that you have to guess based on their opening sequences. In “Worldle” a country has to be recognized by its outlines, mathematics experts are in good hands with “Nerdle”. Sports fans can play Who Are Ya? Guess soccer players with the help of data – with this application, however, the “Wordle” hype changes gently in the direction of “Who am I?”.
With the original “Wordle” from the USA, users have six attempts to guess a five-letter word. There are color hints after each attempt: letters that have been placed correctly are colored green, letters that do not appear are colored gray. If a letter occurs but not at the typed position, it turns yellow.
At first only developer Wardle and his girlfriend Palak Shah dealt with the game. After the October 2021 release, “Wordle” played 90 people on November 1, according to Wardle. Two months later it was 300,000 people, and shortly thereafter “Wordle” surpassed the million mark – and the trend is rising.
According to the New York Times Company, Wordle is now played by millions of people every day. The parent company of the “New York Times” took over the game at the end of January from the software developer Josh Wardle, a man in his late 30s living in New York – according to the publisher for a purchase price in the “lower seven-digit range”.
The idea for the game is much older. In 1987 the TV game show “Lingo” started in the USA with a very similar principle. Two years later, an adaptation became a long-running hit on Dutch television, later in France and most recently in the UK. In Germany, the “Lingo” adaptation “5 times 5” was broadcast on Sat.1 from 1993 to 1994.
Source: Nachrichten
