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Wordle Was Purchased By The New York Times So That’s The End Of That

February 1, 2022 / Posted by:

Take a good long look at all those green and yellow squares your so-called “smart” friends have been posting on Twitter because Wordle just went corporate. NPR reports that The New York Times has purchased the viral word game for “an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures,” which is great news for the nerd that invented it, Josh Wardle, but terrible news for the nerds who play it. And to all the knuckle-dragging neanderthals who’ve been perplexed by the sudden influx of Chiclet gum emojis on their Twitter timeline over the past few months, you may unfurrow that gargantuan brow ridge. This is what all that business was about.

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