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Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn, knew his partner loved word games, so he created a guessing game for just the two of them. As a play on his last name, he named it Wordle.

But after the couple played for months, and after it rapidly became an obsession in his family's WhatsApp group once he introduced it to relatives, Mr. Wardle thought he might be on to something and released it to the rest of the world in October.

On Nov. 1, 90 people played.

On Sunday, just over two months later, more than 300,000 people played.

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Swarely said:

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/technology/wordle-word-game-creator.html

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Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn, knew his partner loved word games, so he created a guessing game for just the two of them. As a play on his last name, he named it Wordle.

But after the couple played for months, and after it rapidly became an obsession in his family's WhatsApp group once he introduced it to relatives, Mr. Wardle thought he might be on to something and released it to the rest of the world in October.

On Nov. 1, 90 people played.

On Sunday, just over two months later, more than 300,000 people played.

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aftershock said:

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ADIEU is solid starter for getting most of the vowels. Then piggy back with something like SNORT that covers O and other common consonants.

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aftershock said:

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ADIEU is solid starter for getting most of the vowels. Then piggy back with something like SNORT that covers O and other common consonants.

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DamnGood86 said:

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I got yesterday's in three and today's in four using the same two first words. I have never heard today's word.

I am going to keep starting with the same first two until it fails.

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MooreTrucker said:

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Me neither. got 3 of the 5 letters in the proper order but that's all.

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