Quordle, a Wordle-style phrase sport, has a becoming new proprietor within the form of Merriam-Webster. The game’s URL now redirects to a web page on the corporate’s web site, as TechCrunch noticed. The Merriam-Webster brand seems on the high of the web page too.

“I’m delighted to announce that Quordle was acquired by Merriam-Webster! I can’t think of a better home for this game,” Quordle creator Freddie Meyer wrote in a message on the sport’s assist tab. “Lots of new features and fun to come, so stay tuned!”

Quordle is a supercharged model of Wordle. Instead of giving of us six guesses to discover a single five-letter phrase, Quordle challenges gamers to concurrently work out 4 of them in 9 guesses or fewer. The color-coded strategy is similar. If a letter is the proper place, it turns inexperienced, and if it is elsewhere in a given phrase, it turns yellow. As with Wordle, there’s one every day batch of 4 phrases.

Merriam-Webster scooped up Quordle a 12 months after Wordle took the world by storm and got snapped up by The New York Times. Heardle, a music-themed clone, additionally has an apt proprietor after Spotify bought it final summer time.

Some gamers (hello) have been aggravated by Quordle reusing sure phrases. On just a few events, the identical phrase has popped up two days in a row. With a dictionary firm now in cost, here is hoping Quordle will freshen issues up.