Today is the 1,000th Wordle (Picture: Shutterstock)Happy birthday Wordle. It quickly spread from the US to the UK and across the world, becoming so popular that the New York Times snapped it up for an undisclosed seven-figure sum in January 2022. The New York Times swiftly changed the answer in the middle of the day, sparking more anger as some users were presented with a different puzzle that day than others. UK Wordle fans had a major sense of humor failure the first time they came a cropper over this, so do yourself a favor and be ready. And more recently, the game hit the headlines after the New York Times issued a legal threat against the team behind ‘Shetlandic’ dialect version Wirdle, designed to help boost interest in the language.

Source: New York Times March 15, 2024 09:26 UTC