(Reuters) – Apple Inc stated on Wednesday it has eliminated from its App Store a number of knockoffs of Wordle, a website-only phrase sport that has seen a latest surge in recognition due to celebrities like Jimmy Fallon.
The once-a-day on-line phrase sport, initially created in October by former Reddit software program engineer Josh Wardle, can solely be performed on his web site and doesn’t have a cell app.
However, a number of builders have created an identical app variations to money in on surging demand for the sport, with unsuspecting customers driving up downloads of the clone apps.
As of Wednesday, the one remaining product on the App Store with that title was Wordle!, a time-based sport created by Steven Cravotta greater than 4 years in the past.
Josh Wardle’s sport has flooded Twitter and Facebook timelines in latest weeks as gamers posted their scores. It offers a participant six possibilities to guess the day’s secret phrase, which has 5 letters, and the goal is to determine the key phrase with the fewest guesses.
The sport is a free-to-use, ad-less expertise on a easy web site that doesn’t must be downloaded from Apple’s App Store or Google’s PlayStore.
Bloomberg News first reported the information on Wednesday.
(Reporting by Eva Mathews in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika Syamnath)
