The Man Behind Wordle!

Samsung Unpacked happened this week and have the phones in hand! Marques and Andrew go over the S22 and the S22 Ultra before having a chat with Josh Wardle. You may have heard of the viral game Wordle that he created but you might not know that he was also one of the minds behind a few popular April Fool's day experiments at Reddit too. Whether you're interested in the new phones or what went into the making of this viral hit, this episode is a good one.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:52 New Waveform Mug
01:27 Samsung Galaxy S22
06:20 Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra
15:58 Indeed (Sponsored)
16:48 Interview with Josh Wardle
35:37 DraftKings (Sponsored)
36:58 Interview continued
46:53 Josh and Marques talk Ultimate Frisbee
50:15 A Race to Z with Josh Wardle
53:40 Outro
Links:
Samsung Galaxy S22 Impressions: bit.ly/3Bf7feF
Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra Impressions: bit.ly/3Lkd4w9
Wordle: www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
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[@theShinySheep]

This was seriously great. I love the fact that he's a really humble guy who just wanted to make something that would make his partner happy. The insane success didn't break or change him. He didn't try and milk it. Kept it pure. Bravo, Josh. Thanks to MKBHD for sharing his story.

[@kaarteeek]

Respect to Josh for absolutely nailing typethealphabet in just one try. I'd have loved to see him try thrice. probably my best WVFRM guest ever (and I've been here since episode 1 smh).

[@YJCH0I]

Wait, his last name is Wardle and he made Wordle? That makes so much sense!

[@NeonVisual]

Bill Microsoft has entered the chat

[@marashah.ibrahim]

@@NeonVisual That made me laugh more than it should've

[@YoavZilka]

and Tim Apple is the CEO of Apple (tho not the founder)

[@ChristianFure]

@@YoavZilka dont forget about Mark Facebook

[@YoavZilka]

@@ChristianFure you mean Mark Meta?

[@ImJBlu]

So this man created wordle, the button, and place?!? Legend

[@TheJttv]

r/place is straight internet lore

[@Clanmemberkalvin]

abso

[@MarcelL-DM]

Welllll. There is a Dutch gameshow called Lingo that's been around since 1989. So it's not new at all. Google it

[@bailopinto]

@@MarcelL-DM Also in Spain, in 1991.

[@aaronstephen103]

@@MarcelL-DM Lingo ist actually a canadian show from 1987 that came to the netherlands and world after that ... yeah there goes my dutch pride

[@karatjuicepodcast]

That intro is refreshing and crisp! Keep up the great work fellas. I appreciate these episodes so much !

[@arongijsel]

I was so excited to see this episode. I love all the Waveform interviews especially this one!

[@lucadeandrade3194]

Best waveform yet! What an amazing interview and what an amazing guy. Can't wait to see what he does next.

[@TechSpaceCowboy]

Whatever prescription drugs Andrew took right before the show, keep em’ coming! He was hilarious in the beginning with the mug and the film peel.

[@LasloCanadi]

THIS 😂 👏

[@khalidsaifullahfuad]

Just the guest that I wanted 😍. Man josh is such a nice and humble guy. Waiting for the next episode.

[@mabelalamu8176]

I really enjoyed this interview!! You always come up with good questions Marques.

[@TonyBalboa]

This was such a great episode. I loved the interview with Josh.

[@_CarlosA]

Awesome interview! Great work Marques

[@XLessThanZ]

Place: VERY interesting concept behind the tiles with regard to positive collaborations. Nice to see such a successfully positive social experiment. There is hope. 🥰

[@silentrocco]

Loved this interview. As a creator myself, I found it to be very inspiring. Always motivational to see when great minds are having a good talk. Thank you.

[@jamescassar5348]

"This feels bigger in my hand" you're a lucky man if you heard this

[@TrevorAndersen0]

Great interview!

[@dangomangothe1941]

Great video/segement with josh, best wvfrm episode so far

[@siddharthsrinivas6271]

Wonderful episode. Also loved the Thumbnail.

[@BrendansReasons]

him: given the chance, people will do something positive him 1 minute later: everyone started drawing a phallic symbol

[@HenryMcManus]

It’s amazing, I WANT to listen to the podcast but always end up watching the video

[@seth561]

Literally been refreshing since I saw the podcast guest on apple podcast!!!!! So excited for wordle talk!!!

[@customjohnny]

I have to say, if the 3 people I know that play Ultimate, they are all just my favorite type of people to be around! So chill but knowledgeable and humble, and kind and funny too. Rock on!🤘🏼

[@dalitsomz]

Nice interview with Wardle. I didn't know I needed to hear from him.

[@vesves_4]

Man he was such a great interview. What a cool guy.

[@jakebrown1066]

i have never been more excited to listen to a podcast episode in my life

[@woltergrant]

Whoa dude KILLED IT with that sub 5! Idk any of that typing lingo speak but it fooled me into thinking he was at some type of hunt and peck skill lvl. Especially with how worried he was looking at first word of the test..it all had me nervous for him, then bang, one and done. Props

[@NeuraPod]

Great interview.

[@louisrios5546]

Loved the Josh Wardle interview, it went much deeper than other articles I've read about him, which tend to be of the generic "oh, how exciting this must be for you" variety.

[@RobertDWilson81]

Great guest find!

[@sg3428]

It would be great if one of the words in future on Wordle would be WVFRM. (no vowel & almost all uncommon letters, would be SO difficult) Even with Samsung event, I skipped to Josh Wardle chapter first. Loved the Thumbnail!

[@REVIEWSONTHERUN]

Interesting! Thank you for sharing it ✌️

[@universecode1101]

Wow the entire internet knows WORDLE, impressive 👏🏻🤯

[@thepadster123]

Fellow Brit here. He needs to answer for his crimes. "FAVOR" 😡

[@Mandem909]

😂😂

[@glovelessboxer]

I have played place as well as wordle but didn't realise it came from the same creator. Great to hear Josh's perspective on doing something creative rather than an end benefit in mind.

[@CornflakeMom]

"Ultimate Connected" You guys crack me up 😂😂😂

[@mariovega7611]

His name being Wardle is amazing actually

[@amitnagpal1985]

Marques was DIABOLICAL to not let Josh try again. He would have beat Marques on second try. 😈

[@boboblio4002]

I have heard about this guy's projects on NPR in some form or fashion. Truly amazing results on the featured projects.

[@The_DiploMatt]

I’ve been refreshing waiting for this lol

[@detailsmove]

never clicked on a waveform episode so quick

[@niharc]

NO WAY they got him on This is pretty crazy

[@NSHarrison]

Such a great chat with Josh.

[@rjw705]

Great listen with Josh. Sounds like a great dude! Also, got tried the Type the Alphabet test. 3.860!

[@regiwock]

Never clicked one a video faster. Tri-state excellence !!

[@MSR93]

Note 20 Ultra user here. I must admit that don't really use the S-Pen but it is super useful when I really needed it. I'm into editing photos using Lightroom and having an S-Pen makes ton of difference when using masking or brushing tiny parts of the photos instead of using the fingers. Note series are the best that Samsung can offer to the general public.

[@scttymn]

great podcast :D

[@lcflngn]

Loved Mastermind so much as a kid! Happy to know this is really where Wordle came from. Loved beating my dad, we both loved that honestly, I did feel so smart. What a great memory.

[@aldoustsang]

Cool interview, Lingo

[@aspiceoflife]

19:31 it's been a "roller code" lol

[@brokenthrone01]

Yo this guy was great as a guest, I laughed the whole podcast.

[@TravellingTech]

The thumbnail maker is a genius!

[@CreeperFace75]

great pod

[@ThatTechChannel101]

11:00 actually, samsung did make a cheaper note series phone about 2 or so years ago called the galaxy note 10 lite! I guess that series died due to its lack of popularity

[@noahlambe8230]

him saying that wordle is "quite easy" has me crying, pissing, shitting, and farting. i play wordle to feel like a megabrained genius, it is NOT easy im just GOOD and SMART.

[@olliegrave7229]

Loving the new Zealand shout out

[@ggandalff]

One variant that is blowing up is Squabble, that adds battle royale to the game

[@Von199X]

Great guy

[@haw460]

i thought the filtering of words came from an already existing function or data from an online dictionary or something. makes it even more charming to know his partner manually helped him filter through all 13k words!

[@austinperumal174]

Been a long time note user, finally gonna upgrade after so long. I am a graphic designer so I use the s pen like everyday. Also a series not would be awesome 🙂. Also s pen features would be great in you review.

[@oluwapelumiapooyin8471]

That thumbnail is sick 🤣🤣

[@stephanie-wolf]

Hahaha I loved the alphabet test at the end. That was funny

[@stainomatic]

They removed expanded storage. So can you test whether you can add an external USB C hard drive, and it would recognize it.

[@lacasitos60]

Damn i love the background sound

[@ferfelekistotoridis6494]

Wordle is a genius idea. I remember playing bookworms adventures the old days. There is also a game like that Orbi's chronicles.

[@diando19]

11:09 Samsung did release a Note 10 Lite back in the day and actually planned a Note 21 Lite last year, but cancelled it, alongside the other Note 21's. Maybe you'll see a lower end device with an S-pen later in the year, since a Note... errr... S22 Ultra showed up

[@DojoOfCool]

When I was a kid buying a new car was kind of a thing and car makers really had a tough time making a car different enough from the previous year to entice people. Usually it ended up me mainly cosmetic differences. But cars got more expensive and less and less difference per year and people started keep their cars for longer before thinking of buy a new one. Now cellphones are following the same path. I think how much cellphones have increased in price and cell service providers stopping subsidizing the phone cost. Even the Apple hardcore who bought a new phone yearly are now hanging on to their iphones for a few years. So are the constantly changing camera bumps the way phone makers are using as signal to say to the world... I'm the latest phone and my owner is laying it on the table so you know.

[@mavfan1]

it's mostly the ridiculous looking apple earbuds that people desperate for attention use to signal they have an iphone.

[@anandamroy4727]

@8:15 they have 16 GB variant starting from 512 GB storage.

[@kashifkhan1042]

Any chance you can do the Exynos vs Snapdragon?

[@Monir-tghp]

He should make an international user mode with more common guess words, I've played 5 times but all of the times the guess word was so uncommon...never heard of it.

[@xavytex]

In France we had Motus on TV. It's wordle 30 years before wordle.

[@_.ruxir._]

Do you shoot the intro after the main content

[@Pyrozoid]

I didn't get my first ever Wordle cus I didnt quite understand what I had to do so my streak percentage is (N-1)*100/N (N is the total number of games played) and I found out that Wordle rounds up the percentage. So I calculated how many days I need to play to get back to a 100%(or just reach 99.5%) and it's 200 days. So I'm gonna play until I get a 200 day streak and hopefully get a 100% again.

[@jacobleetech]

One of my favorite mugs looks sorta like yours, its matte black outside with a glossy black audi logo and a red interior

[@jacobleetech]

Still wanna get a waveform one tho

[@DanielReuben_14897]

waiting for this .....

[@dardvl655]

So crazy that he is the guy that made r/place

[@matthewhanks4392]

I got $600 for my Note 20 Ultra plus a $250 Samsung credit and got the 256gig S22 Ultra for the price of the 128gig and got 24 months no interest with Samsung credit. Love Samsung's preorder deals.

[@nabeelnoushad8101]

Dis is d 1st tym on dis channel...the audio is..owmygaaawdd😳😳😳

[@jenyfursmith8413]

Maybe on a Friday, it would pull from the bigger list as a bonus.

[@SmithyInWelly]

A small part of New Zealand's highly connected twitter verse says g'day to you all! Haha

[@Adda9842]

For the s21 ultra review could you talk about the power hungry processor and how it relates to the battery life ? , because in the USA I believe its the snapdragon 8 gen 1

[@JanneWolterbeek]

I’ve never heard if the Wordle creator was inspired by Lingo, a Dutch TV show where you had to guess a 5-letter word in the exact same way. It has to be said that it is known that the Lingo producer kind of “stole” the concept from some American though.

[@xahal]

Lingo was originally from the US. It was then exported to multiple countries, like many game shows have been.

[@dnh343]

12:53 Why is it like that? Not only when recording 8K but with all phones when in video mode it crops the image? It's the same with my Dji Mini 2 drone.

[@justice4g]

why am i having to watch this to find out where to get, name it something that isn't already taken!

[@kushal809]

Awesome 👍

[@JoshsBookishVoyage]

I got the S22 Ultra with a $700 rebate through project fi, and it was hard to resist. I couldn't trade in my P6 Pro, but I should be able to sell it for enough to make the upgrade basically free.

[@XLessThanZ]

Type the Alphabet: I've always felt developers are some of the fastest typist. Not many people use every key on the keyboard, but developers potentially do. If you noticed how fast he started. He didn't even prepare himself mentally like some of your other guests. A split second after he stopped talking, he was typing.

[@TheJhowNM]

I'm sad that this phones cost is so high in my country that I don't even bother to ask anything about them for the reviews...I watch for pure entertainment. I'll probably not ever even touch those phones 😂

[@maxivy]

Damn, it’s already that big?

[@bloomfilms]

It’s hard to not attach your success to it when it’s very similar to last name, to be fair

[@julianfelix7166]

Why can you not listen to this on Spotify or Apple Music ?

[@GoddessKry]

I'm happy with the s21 FE

[@TheElementSwing]

I feel like the s22 with its price is fine. But at 1k for the s22+, I feel like it needs the QHD display instead of FHD. I will get the s22 ultra in red (upgrading from galaxy s9) and they give you the free upgrade to the 12gb 256gb version, and a discount on the 512gb on their website.

[@hamza-chaudhry]

47:08 Ayy Clapham

[@theharesbreath]

15:10 - Technically TWO less years of software updates since the S22 series gets 4 years of updates

[@FuzzyDereck]

When Marques brought up game shows, I almost thought he was gonna mention the British game show Lingo that’s literally the exact same as Wordle, lol.

[@ImKuru]

Yeah we have Lingo in the Netherlands too

[@abrahamoluwagbenga9807]

The pro version for video

[@agtcacct4571]

Preety Good GREAT ❤️

[@ScottyYoutubes]

Here’s an idea: 24 hour livestream waveform podcast for a charity

[@kristinchong629]

😍😍😍 such a good podcast. MKBHD is such a fun guy. I hate even mentioning this but guys big tech picks winners. And we all lose. :(

[@migmfreitas]

oh no... I type the wordle grid... c'mon! Whyyy? I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THAT!