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Josh Wardle

@powerlanguish

powerlanguage. I created Place and The Button

. And more recently Wordle.

New York Citypowerlanguage.co.ukJoined June 2015

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An update on Wordle

Since launching Wordle, I’ve been in awe of the response and the game has gotten bigger than I ever imagined.

On the flip side, it has been a little overwhelming. I am just one person, and it is important to me that, as Wordle grows, it continues to provide a great experience to everyone.

Given this, I am incredibly pleased to announce that I’ve reached an agreement with The New York Times for them to take over running Wordle going forward. If you’ve followed along with the story of Wordle, you’ll know that NYT games play a big part in its origins and so this step feels natural to me.

I’ve long admired the NYT’s approach to their games and the respect with which they treat their players. Their values are aligned with mine on these matters and I’m thrilled that they will be stewards of the game moving forward.

When the game moves to the NYT site, it will be free to play for everyone, and I am working with them to make sure your wins and streaks are preserved.

Thank you all.

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It feels surreal to be included on this list. And even more so when I read the poem. Thank you

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Josh Wardle: The 100 Most Influential People of 2022

Find out why Josh Wardle is on this year’s list

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If you like Wordle you should check out Knotwords. It is an incredibly elegant daily word game. What impresses me most is that, despite its deceptively simple appearance, it has clearly been built with a great deal of thought and care.

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Knotwords a minimal, elegant logic puzzle — with words... Is out now! @games_by_jack and I hope you enjoy it! iOS / Android / Steam (Mac & PC) - playknotwords.com apps.apple.com/us/app/knotwor play.google.com/store/apps/det store.steampowered.com/app/1963900/Kn ~~

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DRIFT ALONG SMALL WORLD youtu.be/0wHZi3Wg7A4 Animation by

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Quote from a New York Times article:

On this centenary of James Joyce’s colossus, we can borrow a thought from W.B. Yeats’s poem “The Fascination of What’s Difficult”: Is “Ulysses” hard because it’s great, or do people assume it’s great because it’s hard?

“It’s hard because Joyce put a lot in there,” Dan Mulhall, the Irish ambassador, told me. “A lot of people are drawn to the novel because of its complexity and derive a lifelong satisfaction from delving into it more deeply. It’s like Wordle for serious readers.”

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I want to acknowledge the folks who have supported me along the way.

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@PakLocknDropit

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in 1954, mark rothko invented the wordle

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Updated my #Wordle #DataStudio report to fit better on a mobile screen...also wanted to share it with

and say thanks for the joy!

datastudio.google.com

Wordle Letters by @tiltondata

Google Data Studio turns your data into informative dashboards and reports that are easy to read, easy to share, and fully customizable.

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Dear Wordle, please remember we’re still dealing with a pandemic. Try to be gentle😭 Wordle 219 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Oskar Stålberg

This madman actually went ahead and wrote a Wordle-to-Townscaper converter (like 2 seconds after I jokingly floated the idea). To mark the occasion I'll reluctantly share my embarrassing attempt at today's Wordle.

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Replying to @DanDanikov @BernhardWerner and @OskSta

I made a tool for that tarmo888.github.io/Wordle2Townsca

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Wordle has given me a non-heavy reason to check in with friends and family every day in these heavy times, while sometimes claiming intellectual superiority over them. Except for the one day I didn't solve it -- I didn't text anybody that day. Thanks

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found this in my MIL’s study… finally starting to understand how she does it 👀

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Can confirm this is true.

@StevenCravotta

reached out to me unprompted and asked about donating the proceeds. He's a class act and you should follow him.

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@StevenCravotta

Here’s how a mobile game I built 5 years ago suddenly got blown up by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Jimmy Fallon.

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today's cubes

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I've mastered Wordle. My new game is trying to create words and intentionally avoid the correct word in order to make patterns. Wordle 207 6/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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I made a Wordle sequencer that turns your results into music 🎶

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#Wordle 204 2022-01-09 91,477 results found on Twitter. 1,913 hard mode players. 1: 1% 2: 3% 3: 🟩🟩🟩 13% 4: 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 27% 5: 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 30% 6: 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 22% X: 🟩 4% #Wordle204

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Daily cartoon for the

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A byproduct of this change is that affected users may skip a puzzle. E.g. If you played #204 yesterday you may end up with #206 today. I am sorry to deprive you of a Wordle. 2/2

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Today I fixed a long standing bug in Wordle's puzzle selection code that was causing folks in certain timezones to get the incorrect puzzle. This largely affected my friends in Australia and New Zealand. 1/2

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kiryu kazuma defender

but what if i cross stitch every single one of my wordle results

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last month, in an act of misguided kindness, I spent 2 days teaching my highly boomer parents how to do wordle today my dad discloses has been keeping a tally of everyone's scores daily & basically codified family rules for wordle. Like it's an extension of golf or something

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Wordle 194 6/6 ⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 ⬛🟩🟩🟨⬛ ⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Almost hoisted by my own petard

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I've started my own little game where I look for pictures in the #Wordle results. I think this one is the Transformer "Onslaught".

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Unlikely Cyclists / Jenn

So, Wordlers, who plays in hard mode? #Wordle #DailyWordleClub

Me!
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Regular mode for me..
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⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Fucking wild one today lads

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Added a share button to Wordle that generates a spoiler-free emoji grid for you. Shoutout to

for inventing such a cool way to share your results each day. 👇 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬛🟨🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Wordle 180 3/6 Try it out: powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

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Fuck I got into wordle and now I'm regretting my life. ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Wordle is serious business. powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle

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Fish, jabbed 5x

Replying to @paulbrislen @Nightwyrm and 11 others

That was 5 for me today with added pen and paper

also check out what our household has started doing with our evenings ...

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Wordle, a daily word guessing game I made, got a shoutout in the NYT newsletter today: nytimes.com/2021/11/24/at-. Thanks

You can play it here: powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle

Check out Wordle, a guessing game that roughly follows the rules of the old plastic-peg game Mastermind. You guess a five-letter word, the computer tells you which letters that you’ve guessed are in the word and whether they’re in the right place. You get six tries to figure it out. There’s only one word to guess per day, thank goodness, or I’d never meet a deadline again.

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Wordle: new daily word game from Josh Wardle, the creator of r/button and r/place at Reddit

Wordle - A daily word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

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Any recent first-time homebuyers want to give us some feedback? I'd love to set up time to go through

with you and get your reaction. Please RT for reach, and respond if you're interested!! #homebuyers #tech #userexperience #usertesting #producthunt #proptech

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We're hiring a frontend engineer at

! We're in gorgeous Los Angeles (and building an in-office team, for those sick of WFH). Our eng team is majority women and we're tackling a massive market in the real estate space! DM me if this sounds interesting :)

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Mario von Rickenbach

We released KIDS exactly two years ago! 🎂 Here’s an extensive documentation of the process, from early sketches to release. Enjoy! playkids.ch/process/ 🧵

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We did it! DwellWell Beta is now live! Know someone looking to buy their first home? Send them my way. We’ve built a modern way to navigate the homebuying process built for shrewd, tech-forward first-time buyers. Sign up at dwellwell.com/join-waitlist for an early invite!

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Danielle Baskin

We just created PartyLine! It’s a website that pairs Americans across the political divide to voice-chat live. Talk with someone who might be voting differently than you. 🌵🌲🌴🎙🇺🇸 RT to spread! And share this with the uncle you disagree with. partyline.chat

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The Vacuum State, the first single from my debut album Zero Point is out now! It's is my love letter to probability and chance, written using real-time data from the zero-point energy field. ffm.to/zeropoint #Zeropoint #Robclouth #mesh #audiovisual #quantum #experimental

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This is one of the best essays I’ve read this year. Read it. The metrics of backpacks artpractical.com/column/the-met

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