Fans have been left guessing what will come next, as the viral puzzle is sold to the New York Times.
Its shareability is also key, prompting daily chats among friends and family, who share grids and strategies.
But ultimately there can be no real failures, because, everyone agrees, a large dose of luck is also involved.So the Wordle world is not terribly competitive, although it allows those who care to check their progress and performance stats. Before he had decided to devise their own game, he and his girlfriend had done the newspaper's crossword, he said, so it was a good fit.But it is hard to predict the future of a game that is neither copyrighted nor trademarked.Many have pointed out similarities with older games, including Jotto, MasterMind and Lingo.
"The applicants - NFT Technology Inc and Monkey Labs Inc - use the same address, in San Francisco," he said, "but it's not clear if they have any connection with the inventor of Wordle, or the New York Times."the shareable grids had initially been conceived by a player in New Zealand and added to the game only later.
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