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Hear, hear. I'd pay $0.25/year to the original designer to play Wordle.

Nice demonstration of how pointless it would have been to attempt to monetize wordle.

Right? I don't mean to rail against the commenter but are they being serious? Wordle is valuable enough to charge at least $1/mo per user. I'd personally say $2/mo to mitigate payment processor fees.

P.S. This is assuming the user base comprises avid daily players (which seems true.) They would definitely get their money's worth.

How about $0.01 every time you play it?

So up to $3.65 / year for avid users.

now millions play the game daily

So a multiple of $3.65m a year! Payday without any need for third party motivations creeping in.

This would be an ideal support method for a lot of websites, if there was a system which made it practical to transfer small amounts of money with no more hassle than the “<website> wants to accesss <api>” browser prompts…

Heck, we’re already dealing with cookie prompts all over the web; if adding a “$0.01 per article” prompt means we can get rid of the ads and thus get rid of the cookie prompt, it’s not even a net loss for usability

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