Where Wordle comes from, the fashion game that was born as a declaration of love
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Its creator, Josh Wardle, Brooklyn computer scientist, created it for his girl, fond of letters, especially during the pandemic.A Colombian cloned him in Spanish
PorS.T.Palak Shah studied education in Harvard and from Brooklyn, where he lives with his partner, works as an entrepreneur through technology and the digital world.For that, you need to dominate language.Every morning some crossword of the 'New York Times' rises and for a few months he plays Wordle.It is the fashion game in half the world, something Shah never thought it would happen.
His partner, Josh Wardle, a telecommunications engineer, scheduled this game as a gift for her.He knew that his girlfriend loved word games and created a special, unique and simple one, who at first played between the two.
"Definitely, this is Josh's way to show me his love," Shah told 'New York Times'.Yes, that almost secret game that both shared early in the morning extended like water under a door and is already viral.In Twitter sweeps and there are many celebrities, from Streamers to television characters, which have declared Fans de Worldde.
Family WhatsApp
The couple spent months two alone until they decided to share it in a family WhatsApp group and when they saw how they liked it, Wardle decided to make it public at the end of October.On November 1, 90 people played, the first week of January there were already 300.000.And adding.Because the Spanish version was added to the English version in Reyes de Reyes, created by a Colombian resident in Texas.“I wanted to do the test because I am a programmer -Daniel Rodríguez had told in an interview -.I am quite surprised because I launched the game test without any particular intention ”.In this case, however, there was no declaration of love through.
Recrear el maquillaje de 'El juego del calamar' (Netflix) se hace viral en TikTok Margarita VelascoWhat prevails in both versions is simplicity.It is a game that can only be done once a day and with only six opportunities to discover the word of five letters that hide.There is no advertising, there are no applications, no previous record is needed and does not store user data.It is as if the Internet had backed up its beginnings and people would like to travel to the past.
Spanish version
Both Wardle, the inventor of the original, and Rodríguez, the Colombian computer scientist who copied it to adapt it to Spanish, have words prepared in bedroom so that the game lasts years.Rodríguez has already counted that he has 500 stored to be able to play until May 2023.And Wardle, showing his love for his wife, has dedicated another game: he has made it in charge of ‘collecting’ the five -letter words that could appear in the game.They had up to 12.000 words that Palak Shah is classifying and even discarding according to its meaning and simplicity.It has currently reduced the list to 2.500 words, what both consider that the game can last for years.
El montaje viral de Meghan en las fotos de Kate que ha desatado una guerra en redes A. RodríguezBoth, English and Spanish version, also use the game to hide words that have some symbolism on a specific day.Meanwhile, most Spanish users are from Spain, followed by Argentines and Mexicans.
The original idea arose from the mind of a Brooklyn computer engineer thinking about his partner.Although it is not the first time he tries to do something similar.In 2013 it was associated with a group of computer scientists to create a similar prototype that did not curb.So he forgot about the idea until the pandemic arrived and wanted to offer something to his girlfriend to relieve the heaviness of the days of isolation.That dark 2020, Shah was fond of crosswords and online words games, especially those of the 'New York Times'.So his partner got to work, as he himself has declared to the aforementioned newspaper.
"That she enjoy"
"I wanted to get a game she enjoyed," he said.That is why it is nothing more than a simple game and that can only be used once a day.I was designed to play it and nobody else.No notifications or data spy or records, because it was an individual game."And that is what leads you to want to play every day, that you spend only three minutes a day and that's it," Wardle admits, "it is not necessary to spend more time, the day does not steal".
Los mejores tuits de famosos sobre 'El juego del calamar': de Reverte a Pablo Iglesias Jorge C. ParceroAnd this is how Palak Shah's routine has changed, an entrepreneur who lives in Brooklyn with his partner.He wakes up soon, heats with a game or crossword.A hieroglyphic love statement that has become the fashion game.As the 'New York Times' wrote: "Wordle is a love story".
