Google has a Wordle Easter egg and its cute, okay – TechCrunch

I know, I know, youre tired of Wordle. Just mute the word wordle on Twitter and dont be like the guy who made a Wordle-spoiling bot and got banned from Twitter today for being a party pooper (actually, its because its against Twitter guidelines to make a bot that is designed to bother people, but thats some definitively party-pooping behavior).

Okay, now that were alone all the curmudgeons have closed out of the article lets talk about Wordle. Todays puzzle was particularly challenging, but when you typed wordle into the Google search bar to find that strange powerlanguage.co.uk website, you might have noticed a fun Easter egg. The Google icon in the upper right corner looks like Wordle! The animation even enacts someone guessing words like column and goalie before arriving at Google. Its cute, okay! (And in other news, Google is being sued by Washington, DC and three states over a user privacy issue.)

As the cultural significance of a Google Easter egg proves, Wordle is still very popular, and its not just on your Twitter feed. When TechCrunch spoke to the games creator Josh Wardle two weeks ago, he said that two million people were playing the game each day. If youre decidedly not a curmudgeon and still think Wordle is fun (It is! If you dont like it, just dont play!), check out our conversation with Wardle (yep, thats his name) about the games sudden virality, venture capital interest and why he doesnt want to monetize the game.

Wardle told TechCrunch:

Its not like I think that everyone needs to give away the things they create online for free, it was just that because thats how I started this, its made it easier for me to continue it this way. I made something that felt really authentic to me, and now when people are asking like, Do you want to monetize it? Why arent you doing X, Y and Z?

Its really easy for me to say No, I was really happy with it when it was just my partner and me playing together. Its really easy to get seduced by all that stuff, but I try and instead be like I was happy then, and I think Ill be happy in the future if thats where it ends. If at the end of the day with Wordle, its just her and me playing again, I think Ill be totally happy for that to be the outcome.

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Google has a Wordle Easter egg and its cute, okay - TechCrunch