What Wordle has in common with COVID-19

The style of play is rapidly evolving and spawning remarkable variants

Clive Thompson
UX Collective
Published in
5 min readFeb 3, 2022

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Behold “Squabble”, the multiplayer, Battle-Royale version of Wordle

One of the scary things about COVID-19 is how it spawns variants.

It’s a numbers game. If someone catches COVID-19, the virus replicates itself billions of times inside their body, and each replication offers the possibility for a mutation. Granted, most…

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I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net