Wordle: who is lining up with the game of the five letters that sweeps networks?

Although it doesn't have hyper-realistic graphics, explosive gameplay or an epic story, Wordle is on its way to becoming the first big game of 2022. Thousands of people every day access the original version, free and without ads, or any of the dozens of copies that appeared on Internet pages or even the Apple application store.

Wordle is already a viral phenomenon and, as the cake grows, there are those who try to put their boots on until they are kicked out of the party and those who altruistically share the slices of the cake they take.

Wordle, in its original conception, is what the Spain of the early 1990s

. Players must guess a five-letter English word, starting with precisely one of them. Then the correct letters -that is, present in the secret word and in that same place- will appear in green, the incorrect ones will be colored gray and those that are searched for, but in a different order, will be in yellow. With these tracks, there are up to six options (Ramoncín gave one less) to achieve victory.

Part of its success comes from this color code, which can be shared on social networks, letting followers know how many attempts it took a person to crack each day's puzzle.

Another key is, precisely, that limitation of one word -the same for everyone- per day.

The game was created a few months ago by

, a Brooklyn programmer with a background in viral phenomena (he's the creator of the Reddit 'button') who gave it its name as a pun on his last name.

Wardle was not looking for success or money, but simply to give a gift to his wife, who loves this type of game. As he told

, initially the two of them played and later it spread to the family WhatsApp group. Finally, an open version arrived in October, which went from 90 players on November 1 to more than 300,000 on January 2. And it continues to grow.

With success came copies.

It already happened at the time with Flappy Bird and it will probably happen again with the next big 'hit'.

In the case of Wordle, the copies adapt the game to other languages ​​(there are, among others, versions in Spanish, Catalan or Galician) or they give the idea a twist, sometimes humorous (one of them tries to guess a letter every day and has no limit of attempts).

In the same way, there are both those who maintain Jorsh Wardle's altruistic vision and those who seek to profit from his idea.

Among the first is, among others, Daniel Rodríguez, who adapted Wordle into Spanish and promises that the game "will be free forever" (he accepts donations to maintain the servers) and gives credit for the original version (to which he links) to creator.

A similar and at the same time tangential case is that of fellow developer

. Cravotta is the creator of Wordle. A completely different Wordle. It is an application that he

and uploaded to the Apple store, where he spent five years without pain or glory, according to himself in a Twitter thread. However, the success of its namesake, which does not have a mobile version (at least, an official one), caused downloads to skyrocket, which came from confused users who had searched for Wordle in the App Store. And not a few: in one week it exceeded 200,000 installations and has already accumulated

.

As a result of this coincidence, Cravotta obtained several thousand dollars, but instead of keeping it or trying to get more, he decided to contact Wardle to ask

. Finally, the chosen one was Boost! West Oakland, an organization that offers free tutoring to students.

On the other side of this balance appears

, a third programmer linked to Wordle who now boasts in his Twitter bio of having been "canceled" for making a clone of the game.

Both assessments are correct: he created the copy, boasted of it -also of being profiting from it- and received the contempt of not a few Twitter users.

Then he tried to explain himself - Wordle, he recalled, is not an original idea, as

well knows - and claimed that he had offered Wardle a percentage payment to use his semi-eponymous nomenclature.

Finally, Apple cut to the chase: the company removed his app, and many others, from its store.

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