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New York Times buys viral word game Wordle

February 1, 2022 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times said on Monday that it has bought Wordle, the free online word game that has exploded in popularity and, for some, become a daily obsession.

It listed the purchase price as being in the “low-seven figures,” but did not disclose specifics.

UK Scrabble group bans star player for breaking tile rule

By DANICA KIRKANovember 13, 2017 GMT

LONDON (AP) — The Association of British Scrabble players banned one of its star players for three years after an independent investigation concluded that he had broken rules in the popular word game...

Online game Words with Friends adds ‘covfefe’ to its list

By MARK KENNEDYJune 1, 2017 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The popular mobile word game Words With Friends has added one of the internet's most popular typos in recent days — "covfefe."

The mysterious term that President Donald Trump tweeted has spread like wildfire on social media and the Scrabble-like multiplayer game has jumped aboard, defining the word as "the amount and quality of reporting when autocorrect fails you at 3am...

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