The source fits the pattern of something generated by LLM and even includes comments that were probably part of the prompt.
Doesn't anyone else remember being a beginner? This isn't something I would have made. It has too many extra little nuances. The dictionary is a big clue.
Get the chatter going, get "press", clicks, visitors and players, then potentially ads, or selling the site (for someone else to put even more ads on it), or using it as marketing reference (I made a game viral by lying about it).
Wordle sold for $1+ million. An average word game with a unique hook like "my grandma made it" is well positioned to sell or at least attract a lot of viral traffic.
Anyway, the grandma story has been exposed as fake.
Doesn't anyone else remember being a beginner? This isn't something I would have made. It has too many extra little nuances. The dictionary is a big clue.