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Spread Certificate · No. HIS-00958

The story of nerdle: the first popular math wordle

This certifies how far it spread

Nerdle

Nerdlegame Ltd (Richard Mann) ·January 2022 ·seeded onOpen webthenRedditPressXAudio

Spread Score

14

Niche

Verified independently

Verified

3.9K views

Wikipedia, its busiest 30 days

Verified

32 days

Seed to peak, Jan 20 to Feb 21

Verified

5 platforms

Started on Open web

Claimed, not audited

Claimed

1M

Players, cumulative, in more than 200 countries (Guardian)

Per The Guardian

Claimed

1M

Users from some 230 countries within three weeks (Forbes)

Per Forbes (Peter Suciu, contributor)

Claimed

1M

Players in about a week after launch, per Richard Mann in 2024

Per Nerdle (Richard Mann interview with Paul Essery)

Issued Oct 15, 2026 · Spread Score v1.2 provisional · 12 sources

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