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[TheMan]

Supposedly it will remain free in the immediate future but the writing's on the wall. Fun while it lasted I guess.

The New York Times buys popular word game Wordle | CNN Business

The New York Times has acquired Wordle, the explosively popular game that gives players six chances to guess a five-letter word daily.

www.cnn.com

 

[MudoSkills]

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

Pay for diff colors and word lengths coming soon

 

[Valonquar]

Whack

 

[DKehoe]

Seems like he didn't plan on it going viral and I can't blame him for cashing out.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

I would have also taken the money and ran.

 

[TheMan]

Seems like he didn't plan on it going viral and I can't blame him for cashing out.

Oh no not all, he would have been dumb to not cash out

 

[TTOOLL]

Good for the developer I guess

 

[poppabk]

Well glad the developer is getting paid, but sadly can't imagine the game will survive now that money is involved.

 

[LordCBH]

“It’ll remain free for now”

It dies as soon as they paywall it lol

 

[poppabk]

“It’ll remain free for now”

It dies as soon as they paywall it lol

It will die before then. They will do something to fuck with its simplicity.

 

[AV]

There's so many clones already and there will be more in the future. Just pick one and play it when this is no longer free or covered in ads.

 

[TDiddyLive]

The press statement talks all about their subscriptions. It’ll be behind that paywall soon enough.

 

[Sean Mirrsen]

Whack

 

[DanteFox]

Here's my Wordle optimized strategy: the first two words should always be such that they get all the vowels out of the way first, like "QUIET" and "ROADS" or "BOARS." Those words also get some common letters like R, T and S out of the way. From there on your third try you use the letters you got and make sure to use any yellow letters in different positions. This will maximize the information you extract out of each turn. By the fourth turn you should be pretty close and have narrowed it down. I've used this on about 40 Wordle puzzles so far and only lost one, and it was because I was rushing through it and not thinking that hard about my word choice. I got a lot of them in 4 tries and some even in three. The New York Times can have it if they want lol. Fun little game though.

 

[SJRB]

I don't understand how this guy "owns" the game, how is it his to sell?

In my country we have the exact same game [only it's called Lingo] and it's been a tv show for like 25 years now. It's not a game some dude invented a few months ago.

 

[Fbh]

I don't understand how this guy "owns" the game, how is it his to sell?

In my country we have the exact same game [only it's called Lingo] and it's been a tv show for like 25 years now. It's not a game some dude invented a few months ago.

I don't own Chess.
But I can make a site that's called "Chessy" where I build a web app that allows people to play chess. If it blows up for some reason I can then sell Chessy.com (domain, logo, the actual app, user database, etc) despite me not owning the game of chess.

 

[Evil Calvin]

Supposedly it will remain free in the immediate future but the writing's on the wall. Fun while it lasted I guess.

The New York Times buys popular word game Wordle | CNN Business

The New York Times has acquired Wordle, the explosively popular game that gives players six chances to guess a five-letter word daily.

www.cnn.com

Well for a 5 letter word once a day who the hell would pay for that?

 

[Mistake]

I don't understand how this guy "owns" the game, how is it his to sell?

In my country we have the exact same game [only it's called Lingo] and it's been a tv show for like 25 years now. It's not a game some dude invented a few months ago.

Tell that to Helicopter or Bejeweled. Both of those have tons of clones that sold a lot

Good for the developer, but corporate hands usually screw up a good thing