You might have played this online Game called Wordle. It’s a pretty popular game in the entire world right now if you don’t know about it yet. It was created by Josh Wardle They originally made it for their girlfriend But they later decided to make it available to the public and it was a major hit.

Well, now the New York Times has purchased Wordle, This game has exploded in popularity in recent months, and Considering all the different kinds of word games in the New York Times Library, This purchase was very suited.

The New York Times Stare announced on Monday that they were making their latest new digital acquisition for a “low Seven figure” price. They Did say in a press release that they were not going to be changing the Wordle format and the game would remain free for new and existing players. Wardle Originally did create the game, which was ad-free, only available once a day as a gift for their partner before making it public in October.

Wardle, The Brooklyn-based software engineer told the Games count jumped from 19 November 1 to 300,000 on January 2nd. It is still unclear if the New York Times is going to be charging players for access to this game at any point in the future As these kinds of word and crossword puzzles, or a large part of their Game library accessible to digital subscribers.

The New York Times did say that they did not have any plans for the game’s future currently, and they are going to be Letting it stay free.