Apple stated on Wednesday it has faraway from its App Store a number of knockoffs of Wordle, a website-only phrase recreation that has seen a latest surge in reputation because of celebrities like Jimmy Fallon.

The once-a-day on-line phrase recreation, initially created in October by former Reddit software program engineer Josh Wardle, can solely be performed on his web site and doesn’t have a cellular app.

However, a number of builders have created equivalent app variations to money in on surging demand for the sport, with unsuspecting customers driving up downloads of the clone apps.

As of Wednesday, the one remaining product on the App Store with that title was Wordle!, a time-based recreation created by Steven Cravotta greater than 4 years in the past.

Josh Wardle’s recreation has flooded Twitter and Facebook timelines in latest weeks as gamers posted their scores. It offers a participant six probabilities to guess the day’s secret phrase, which has 5 letters, and the intention is to determine the key phrase with the fewest guesses.

The recreation is a free-to-use, ad-less expertise on a easy web site that doesn’t must be downloaded from Apple’s App Store or Google’s PlayStore.

Bloomberg News first reported the information on Wednesday.

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