![]() ![]() “My inbox is destroyed,” Wardle said slowly, staring through the windshield. “I think if I was actually the creator,” the Canadian Josh Wardle observed to a reporter, “I’d be quite exhausted.” 22 Saturday Night Live featured an impersonation of former President Donald Trump playing Wordle.īut when we met, Wardle had not wanted his photo taken, and was clearly worn down by the attention tsunami that a few days earlier had swept across the Great Plains to engulf a Canadian industrial equipment salesman with the same name: “Regina man mistaken for inventor of Wordle fielding flood of emails, CNN interview request” was the headline on a CBC story. During the month of January, the number swelled beyond 10 million, that kind of acceleration that creates its own weather. By the end of December, there were 300,000. One way to measure the popularity of Wordle is the number of people playing it each day. “I made something,” he explained, “that I would like to exist on the internet.” In fact, much of the conversation was about how his invention-a simple game that gives a player six chances to guess a five-letter word-demonstrated that the internet could be about something other than money. In the front seat of a running car the the day before (we were to talk in a park, but it was 25° F) Wardle had betrayed no hint of any impending windfall. ![]()
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