What You Didn’t Know About Wordle, the Game that Went Viral
“You had so much to do with him following his passion.” Mark Cravotta
Steven Cravotta was a teenager when he created Wordle. The game languished for five years with little attention and few downloads, so Steven was shocked this month when he noticed something strange.
His game was suddenly being downloaded 40,000 times a day.
But Steven wasn’t the only one who was surprised. A note from his father surprised my husband, who was Steven’s technology teacher when Steven created the game during a computer class.
Mark Cravotta wrote, “I am not sure if you saw this, but Steven’s app that he developed while working wth you has become part of the viral launch of the app called Wordle….”
“You had so much to do with him following his passion. We are grateful for people like you who have the ability to see the possibility in students.”
Steven’s father also mentioned in his email that Steven had been written up in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, and several other publications. That’s because Wordle, a free web game, is one of the most popular games in the world right now.
