Josh Wardle Biography
Josh Wardle is one of the Welsh software engineers known for creating the popular online word game Wordle. Wardle was acquired by The New York Times Company in late January 2022. Wardle currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
Josh Wardle Age
He is 38 years old as of 2023. He was born in 1985 in Brooklyn, New York.
Josh Wardle Palak Shah – Wife and Partner
He is married to Palak Shah, who is of Indian Origin. He is blessed to have a partner who contributes to his growth.
Josh Wardle Family
Wardle grew up on an organic livestock farm in the small village of Llanddewi Rhydderch, near Abergavenny. He has three brothers, one of whom is documentary filmmaker Tim Wardle, who directed Three Identical Strangers in 2018.
Josh Wardle Education
He graduated from Royal Holloway, University of London, with a degree in Media Arts. He moved to the United States a few years later to attend the University of Oregon, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts in Digital Art.
Palak Shah Josh Wardle
Wardle created a prototype of the word game Wordle, a play on his surname, while working at Reddit in 2013. He returned to his 2013 prototype in January 2021 to create a word game for his partner, Palak Shah. He and Shah had played many New York Times games, including Spelling Bee, during the COVID-19 pandemic, and he wanted to create a new word game that they could play together. Shah was instrumental in the game’s development before it was released to the public. She went over all 12,000 five-letter words in the English language and narrowed them down to 2,500 commonly used words that could be used in the daily puzzle.
Wardle and Shah played the game without telling anyone else about it from January to June 2021. Wardle then shared the game with his family members before making it widely available in October 2021 via his own website, powerlanguage.co.uk. Wardle’s goal was not to make money, so Wordle had no advertisements. Wardle did not want Wordle to become his full-time job, despite his success.
Within a month of Wardle’s announcement, the game had 90 players. After one month, the game had 300,000 daily players, which increased to two million the following week. The New York Times Company announced in January 2022 that it had acquired Wordle “for an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures.”
Josh Wardle Brooklyn
Wardle has been a software engineer at Brooklyn-based art collective MSCHF, which created Lil Nas X’s Satan Shoes, since December 2021.
Josh Wardle Reddit
Wardle moved to Oakland, California, after finishing graduate school, and began working as an artist at Reddit in 2011. He later became one of Reddit’s first product managers, overseeing the community engineering team. He created popular collaborative experimental games like The Button in 2015 and Place in 2017. He took a nearly two-year hiatus from Reddit to work as a software engineer at Pinterest before returning to Reddit as a software engineer.
Josh Wardle Net Worth
His net worth is estimated to be $800k.
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