I didn’t think I’d get hooked. Being able to successfully solve these daily word scavenger hunts has to be the reason why I dig it. I’m not competitive. My visual puzzling skills aren’t strong and I tend to lose 99% of the Words With Friends games I play.
I have mixed feelings about it selling to The New York Times. It’s understandable that the author of this version of the puzzle would want to be paid for his work. Hope you got paid well Josh Wardle.
In case anyone is wondering, Josh didn’t invent the puzzle. Here’s more on how Wordle came to be:
https://jtwoo.blogspot.com/2022/01/can-we-talk-about-wordle.html