The word game has seen an absolute explosion in popularity over the last few months with hundreds of thousands of users, if not millions, posting their Wordle successes and failures on social media, showing how quickly they guessed the correct word for the day. There have also been plenty of people who have made different versions of the game, some that were obviously unauthorized clones and others that appeared to be something that could be described as an homage. That appears to be the case with the latest new version of Wordle that’s actually able to be played on the Game Boy.

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Twitter user Stackmashing showed off his latest Wordle project on the social media site, showing the game running on the handheld console. However, they did also make it clear that this isn’t a one-for-one copy of the original game that’s only officially playable on PC and mobile devices with a web browser.

The Twitter user made it clear that the ROM for a GameBoy isn’t powerful enough to have the entire Wordle list on the handheld. Instead, they used a bloom filter to check to see if the word that users are guessing are one of the 8,000 most popular words in the English language. Even doing this, the developer made it clear their version of the game makes plenty of mistakes.

While the original Wordle game has become so popular that it was recently sold to The New York Times, this particular version doesn’t appear to be a way for Stacksmashing to cash in as well. In fact, the user even posted the way that players could get access to his version online as well as how they could download the ROM so people can play it on their Game Boy if they want.

The reaction to Wordle has been swift and varied since it first started getting as popular as it has. It will be interesting to see how long it will remain popular, and if there will be any major changes following the New York Times acquisition.

Wordle is now available now for web browsers.

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Source: Twinfinite