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- Fun

- Simple

- One puzzle a day, and everyone plays the same one so you can share and compare scores

- No account creation, logins, ads, subscriptions, data mining

All the right ingredients for going viral. I just hope the last point stays unchanged.

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I hope the third point stays unchanged too. Too many services out there optimize for engagement, the expense being the encouragement of addictive behaviors.

Everything to do with the game is hard coded into the client. I doubt there's any plan to change that. But I wouldn't be surprised if clones popped up that tried to maximize engagement/revenue.

I've already found a clone that lets me play as many words as desired with as many characters. The only downside is that I've burnt myself out two days after discovering Wordle.

Without ads or logins to sell information from, what’s the need to maximize engagement?

I've seen at least one FOSS project chasing engagement even with little to no financial incentive.

Notoriety and "number go up" is enough incentive sometimes.

Agreed. Only one word a day makes me take my time and use the fewest guesses possible instead of brute forcing it by reusing dead letters. It feels more like a puzzle than a game, and the novelty lasts longer. I don’t think it would be getting the traction it has if it allowed endless play. It’s a throwback to the daily rebus/crossword/quiz newspaper page.

- enriching for non native speaker. (Not so easy to come up with 5 letter correct words.)

- Not banal

4 guesses today. First time it hasn't taken 6 lol

I feel bad that he isn't making a dime from this. I think people should be able to get something in return for creating value for others.

This sounds like the writing prompt for a Onion.com article that begins with "local man".

Maybe they enjoy non-monetary rewards? One of the joys of the internet for me is experiencing peoples' self-less creations. More of that please!

I think the inventor of the internet shouldn't have to work another day in his life. In our society that means money.

Did you actually read the article? It sounds like he's getting much more of a reward than money.

Is this the setup for a new genre of joke, the punchline being The Capitalists!” instead of “The Aristocrats!” ?

So when is Scott from HQ Trivia gonna start emceeing this?

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