The developer behind a five-year-old app going by the name Wordle has donated his sudden monetary windfall to charity after confused users began flocking to his ageing puzzler, mistaking it for the smash-hit browser-based word game of the same name.
Wordle, the new one that is, has taken the world by storm in recent months, with users returning to play the word-based head scratcher day after day. Despite its success, creator Josh Wardle has pledged to keep his game browser-based and ad-free – a decision that’s lead to plenty of unscrupulous sorts cloning the game to turn a quick profit on mobile app stores.
One Wordle app, however, is legit, predating Wardle’s game by five years – and its developer, Steven Cravotta, was both surprised and bemused (thanks Games Radar) to discover the software he’d long abandoned and left to languish in a mustier corner of the iOS App Store was suddenly gaining immense traction following mainstream media coverage of the newer puzzler.