#wordle

#wordle

Half-hour episodes will be filmed in Manchester, England, beginning in June, and be aired on prime time in the US in 2027. Guthrie said she is an avid player of the hugely successful viral word game, created by Reddit engineer Josh Wardle in 2021, and acquired by the Times a year later for an undisclosed seven-figure sum. We've been working on this for a really long time, and actually we just found out in February that we got picked up and we were supposed to shoot in March, she told viewers on Monday, according to Hello!.

The day Josh Wardle sold Wordle to the New York Times, in 2022, for more than a million dollars, should have been a moment of triumph. The game, which gives players six chances to guess a five-letter word, had unexpectedly become a global sensation, and Wardle had already begun to receive e-mails from puzzle designers seeking his input on their own ideas.

Around when Wordle really started to blow up, Jimmy Fallon once spent a whole segment of The Tonight Show solving a puzzle in front of his audience. (The segment aired right before The New York Times bought Wordle from creator Josh Wardle in early 2022.) Fingers crossed this TV show isn't just one person muddling through a puzzle like Fallon did - I got frustrated watching the segment because I just wanted to make my own guesses.

Pope Leo XIV, a fan of Wordle and Words With Friends, balances his new responsibilities with leisure activities like playing word games with his brother.