Josh Wardle, creator of Wordle.
My guest today is a software engineer who, in 2021, released a word game that soon became a global obsession. He grew up in a Welsh farming village, attended the Royal Holloway University, then moved to North America to study for a Masters. In 2011, after graduating, he joined the staff of the website Reddit, where he began to design experimental games such as The Button , Place and, in his spare time, a game called Wordle . Several years later he returned to the Wordle prototype, which he finis...