How Vulture is creating the next Wordle—with a movie twist – Fast Company (2024)

TITLE
How Vulture is creating the next Wordle—with a movie twist

AUTHOR
Chris Morris

PUBLICATION
Fast Company

YEAR
2024

ARTICLE TYPE
Article

FROM THE ARTICLE
Every morning, New York Magazine’s Vulture readers flock to the pop culture website not just to catch up on entertainment headlines, but to get their daily game fix. Just as Wordle has captured a new audience for The New York Times, Vulture’s Cinematrix is proving to be a rallying point for the movie-obsessed.

The grid-based trivia game is consistently the site’s top “story.” It’s an addictive mix of movie trivia and puzzle solving. And it all came about thanks to . . . baseball?

GAMES MENTIONED
Cinematrix

PEOPLE MENTIONED
Neil Janowitz
Joe Reid