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You will never guess Wordle’s terrible, hilarious original name


Seriously, you’ll probably be way off.

Bugs’ Wordy Nugz,” Wardle revealed as part of a presentation about Wordle at Figma’s Config conference on Wednesday. In some older iterations he included with his presentation, the game had things like a score or red X marks to denote “lives.” In early 2020, Wardle and his partner were playing a lot of The New York Times ’ crossword and its Spelling Bee game.

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