The New York Times bought the game from creator Josh Wardle for seven figures in 2022. Wardle famously created the game for his partner, and let her narrow down the 12,000 five-letter words ...
For example, if the second letter of the target word is l (indicated by green) and the player feels that the word starts with a consonant, they will need to know that there are only a few consonant ...
It was created by Josh Wardle, a software engineer ... By January 2022, its popularity had surged so much that the New York Times acquired Wordle to add it to its line-up of games.