Josh Wardle is a Welsh software engineer who developed the viral web-based word game Wordle. The New York Times Company acquired Wordle from Wardle in late January 2022. [1]

Feb 1, 2022 · The Wordle creator Josh Wardle talks about why he created the game, the internet's ethos, and why he sold to the New York Times

Mar 28, 2022 · Josh Wardle, creator of the extremely popular word game Wordle, has explained why he decided to sell his game to The New York Times back in January. Wardle gave a talk at the Game Developer...

Feb 1, 2022 · Software engineer Josh Wardle released the free simple online game in October, and has now sold it for an undisclosed seven-figure sum.

Jan 3, 2022 · Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn, knew his partner loved word games, so he created a guessing game for just the two of them. As a play on his last name, he named it...

Jan 12, 2022 · What is Wordle? The game's creator Josh Wardle talks about scaling a viral hit, getting interest from VCs, and dealing with Wordle clones.

Hi, I'm Josh. I enjoy building unique products that focus on human interaction. Things about me. I am an artist, product manager and engineer. I live in Oakland, CA Brooklyn, NY. On the internet, I often go by powerlanguage. Wordle is daily word guessing game I made.

May 19, 2024 · Wordle, the brainchild of software engineer Josh Wardle, was acquired by The New York Times in 2022. A year later, it was played 4.8 billion times.

Jan 12, 2022 · With origins as a humble personal project, the daily puzzle game Wordle has slowly but surely taken the internet by storm. Reflecting on this unexpected level of success and how he intends to...

Feb 4, 2022 · Josh Wardle, a 2011 Master of Fine Arts graduate in digital arts, has created three viral digital projects since 2015. His latest sensation is Wordle, a play on the British software engineer’s last name, and it’s currently sweeping global social media channels and phone chats, with 2.7 million users and rapidly climbing.