Quordle, a Wordle-style pun, has a fitting new owner in Merriam-Webster. The game’s URL now redirects to a page on the company’s website, as TechCrunch spotted. The Merriam-Webster logo also appears at the top of the page.
“I’m excited to announce that Quordle has been acquired by Merriam-Webster! I can’t think of a better home for this game,” Quordle creator Freddie Meyer wrote in a message in the game’s help section. “Lots of new features and fun to come, so stay tuned!”
Quordle is an advanced version of Wordle. Instead of giving people six guesses to find one five-letter word, Quordle challenges players to figure out four of them simultaneously with nine guesses or less. The color-coded approach is the same. If a letter is in the correct place, it turns green, and if it is elsewhere in a word, it turns yellow. As with Wordle, there is one daily set of four words.
Merriam-Webster snapped up Quordle a year after Wordle took the world by storm and was snapped up by The New York Times. Hurdle, a musical clone, also has a proper owner after Spotify bought it last summer.
Some players (hi) have been annoyed by Quordle’s reuse of certain words. In several cases, the same word appears two days in a row. With a dictionary company now in charge, we hope Quordle will freshen things up.
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