We also had to do a double take at this one.
pivoting to wordle memes pic.twitter.com/ig0MJIEd5o
— angeline rodriguez (@gelrdrgz) January 13, 2022
In case you've been living under a Twitter rock these past few weeks, Wordle is a web browser based game everyone has been going crazy over.
Produced by UK developer Josh Wardle, you get six goes to guess one six letter word a day.
If a letter is in the right place, the box goes green.
It turns orange if it's the right letter in the wrong place, and stays grey if it's the wrong letter.
According to the New York Times, the game was designed for Wardle's partner.
That's definitely relationship goals right there!
People have been going crazy for it on Twitter, as you can tweet the squared pattern and share your results.
In short, Wordle can be summed up by this tweet:
Wordle is the sourdough starter of Omicron.
— Emily Coleman (@editoremilye) January 14, 2022
Credit: @editoremilye on Twitter
However, this is not the original version.
Stephen Cravotta created Wordle at 18 and uploaded it to Apple's App Store, forgetting about it after the initial app was not a success.
When Wardle's version of Wordle started to blow up, Cravotta's app popped up as people began to mistake it for Wardle's Wordle.
Cravotta told the PA news agency that "I saw 200,000 downloads to Wordle, a game I hadn’t touched in five years, and like previously, I was getting maybe like two or three downloads a day."
It's worth noting that this isn't the same person who recently made a paid for version of Wordle for profit as reported by NME.
In fact, Cravotta reached out to Wardle about donating income generated by people downloading the free app.
Wardle himself confirmed via Twitter.
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. https://t.co/7Xeixe6VHh
— Josh Wardle (@powerlanguish) January 14, 2022
Credit: Josh Wardle(@powerlanguish)/Twitter
Cravotta plans to donate the proceeds, which is currently around $3,000(€2,639) to Boost! which gives free mentoring and tutoring to kids living in disadvantaged areas in Oakland, California.
As if the app couldn't get any more addictive!
