Wordle's success inspired the 'lewd and lascivious' – and NSFW – Lewdle, now going viral

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Gary Whitta told Insider why he created Lewdle, a Wordle-inspired word-guessing game featuring only lewd words which has over 880,000 daily players.

players have six chances to guess a different lewd five-letter word every day, most of which are colloquial terms for genitalia or sex acts."Often my mind goes to these kinds of lewd and lascivious places, and I don't think I'm the only one," Whitta said."I think that rude words bring out the inner kid in all of us." After discovering that"Sweardle" was already taken, Lewdle was born.

Brooklyn-based software engineer Josh Wardle initially invented Wordle as a game for his partner to play, but he released it to the masses in October 2021. It now has three million daily players, as reported by"" and it frequently trends on Twitter, where people can share their results without revealing the word.

Lewdle is also making waves on social media. According to Whitta, after less than a week in existence Lewdle has 880,000 daily players. While speaking to Insider on January 27, Whitta said 10,000 people were playing the game in real time, and a quick Twitter search brings up hundreds of results from people enjoying the irreverent nature of the game.

Whitta said the UK is its second-biggest userbase, right behind the US, which doesn't surprise him because"British people love rude words."

 

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