Wordle
Word game
Follow Wordle on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!
| October 2024 | Wordles of the World collaborative project documents 780 Wordle-inspired games across 158 languages. |
| May 2024 | The New York Times initiates legal action against Worldle for trademark infringement. |
| 2023 | Wordle is played 4.8 billion times during the year. |
| March 2023 | At the Game Developers Conference, New York Times producer Zoe Bell reveals Wordle's continued impact, with player count stabilizing at about half of its peak from March 2022. |
| January 2023 | Merriam-Webster acquires Quordle, a variant that requires solving four Wordle-like puzzles simultaneously. |
| January 2023 | Tracy Bennett discusses her editorial approach to selecting Wordle words, including occasional thematic connections to significant dates. |
| 2022 | Wordle becomes the most-searched term on Google worldwide and in the United States. |
| November 2022 | Tracy Bennett is appointed as Wordle's dedicated editor, responsible for selecting the daily word. |
| October 2022 | Hasbro releases Wordle: The Party Game, a physical board game adaptation designed for two to four players. |
| August 24 2022 | Wordle is added to The New York Times Crossword app, with progress synced across mobile and desktop versions. |
| July 2022 | Spotify acquires Heardle, a music-identification game inspired by Wordle's format. |
| July 2022 | Seven words have been removed from the original 2,315 Wordle answers, causing version synchronization issues. |
| May 2022 | The word 'fetus' is removed from the Wordle solution list following the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. |
| April 7 2022 | WordleBot was launched by the New York Times to provide players with analysis of their daily Wordle performance, including luck and skill ratings. |
| February 10 2022 | Wordle officially moves to The New York Times website, with player statistics transferred, though some users experienced reset streaks during the transition. |
| January 2022 | Wordle experiences a rapid rise in popularity, sparking the creation of numerous game clones and adaptations across different platforms and languages. |
| January 2022 | Numerous ad-supported Wordle clones appear on Apple's App Store, which are subsequently removed by month's end. |
| January 31 2022 | The New York Times Company acquires Wordle from Josh Wardle for an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures, with Wardle citing overwhelming attention and complexity of managing the game's popularity. |
| January 13 2022 | 1.2 million Wordle results were shared on Twitter between January 1 and 13. |
| January 12 2022 | Cravotta's Wordle! game was downloaded over 200,000 times, leading to a partnership with Josh Wardle to donate $50,000 to a tutoring charity. |
| January 9 2022 | Wordle reached more than 2 million players in just one week. |
| January 5 2022 | Jonathan Knight from The New York Times games department first contacts Josh Wardle about Wordle, just two days after the game was featured in a Times article. |
| January 5 2022 | Steven Cravotta's unrelated Wordle! game experienced a surge in downloads due to name confusion. |
| January 2 2022 | Wordle's player base grew to over 300,000 players. |
| December 2021 | Wordle became a viral phenomenon on Twitter after Wardle added the emoji-style result sharing feature. |
| November 1 2021 | Wordle had only 90 players at this point. |
| October 2021 | Josh Wardle publicly releases Wordle, originally developed as a personal project for himself and his partner. |
| January 2021 | Josh Wardle published Wordle on the web, initially sharing it only with himself and his partner Palak Shah, and named it 'Wordle' as a pun on his surname. |
| 2014 | Wardle completed the Wordle prototype but lost interest and set the project aside. |
| 2013 | Josh Wardle created an early prototype of Wordle, initially called 'Mr. Bugs' Wordy Nugz', which allowed players to solve consecutive puzzles using an unfiltered list of 13,000 five-letter words. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia article Wordle, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.