Before Wordle, there was another Wordle, which changed its creator's life when the other one went viral thanks to people searching the app store.
Wordle is one of those phenomena that you don't get all too often. Outside of something like Candy Crush, Pokemon Go, or Animal Crossing: New Horizons, I can't think of many games that went so viral it felt like you couldn't go a day without hearing about it. Given its popularity with nearly everyone, it's only natural that some who were perhaps a bit less tech savvy would be steered in the wrong direction, which seemed to be the case.
