A random 5-year-old Wordle game is getting 200k App Store downloads a week
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What 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...