NBC orders game show version of 'Wordle' with Savannah Guthrie as host

NBCUniversal has ordered a TV adaptation of the fashionable New York Times puzzle Wordle that volition beryllium hosted by Savannah Guthrie.

Jimmy Fallon, whose institution is co-producing the show, and Guthrie announced the bid pick-up Monday connected NBC’s “Today.” “Wordle” volition statesman accumulation aboriginal this twelvemonth and debut connected NBC successful 2027.

Guthrie filmed the aviator occurrence for Wordle past autumn successful Manchester, England, wherever the bid volition beryllium made arsenic well. The task from Universal Television Alternative Studio, Fallon’s Electric Hot Dog and The New York Times, has been successful improvement for 2 and a fractional years.

Guthrie said she learned the amusement was picked up successful February and was acceptable to sprout episodes successful March. But producers delayed the commencement arsenic Guthrie went connected a hiatus for 2 months aft the disappearance of her parent Nancy.

“They conscionable stopped everything and said, ‘we volition hold for you, of course,’” Guthrie said. “And Hollywood is simply a truly pugnacious concern arsenic you know, and I didn’t expect that.”

Guthrie returned to “Today” connected April 6. Law enforcement officials judge Nancy Guthrie was taken against her volition from her Catalina Foothills location connected Jan. 31. The probe into her abduction is ongoing.

Guthrie did not notation the concern with her mother’s abduction, but indicated her crippled amusement duties volition beryllium different measurement toward normalcy. “I’m conscionable determined to enactment 1 ft successful beforehand of the other,” she told colleagues.

Wordle asks players to conjecture a five-letter connection successful six chances done a process of eliminating letters. An idiosyncratic player’s show successful the crippled tin beryllium posted online without revealing the answer, arsenic the colored tiles are shown without the letters.

Offered arsenic portion of a subscription to a bundle of puzzles connected the New York Times web tract and app, Wordle has been a large operator of integer gross for the company. The New York Times said earlier this twelvemonth that users solved the Wordle puzzle 4.4 cardinal times successful 2025.

Wordle was created by Brooklyn, N.Y.-based bundle technologist Josh Wardle successful 2021. After it became an contiguous deed online, the New York Times purchased it for a terms reported to beryllium successful the low-seven-figure range.