A random 5-year-old Wordle game is getting 200k App Store downloads a weekWhat you need to know
An old Wordle game has been downloaded 200,000 times in a week as people look for the viral word game.
The game's developer has offered to give the money earned by their app to charity.
The Wordle everyone is looking for is still only available on the web — no app exists currently.
It isn't the Wordle, but nobody seems to know that.
You'd need to have been living in an Internet black hole to have missed the Wordle drama over the last few weeks. It's a word game that's taken the world by storm and it's being talked about just about everywhere. That kind of buzz generates downloads. Except it's generating downloads of a completely unrelated app that's been sat in the App Store for five years.
Wordle, a game by Steven Cravotta, is currently doing huge numbers. It's available in the App Store now but isn't the Wordle everyone is looking for — that isn't stopping anyone from downloading it or, it seems, leaving negative reviews.
Developer Cravotta has been...
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A random 5-year-old Wordle game is getting 200k App Store downloads a week
