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Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by CyberRabbi »

bee_rider wrote: post #65
banana_giraffe wrote: post #48

They've also removed the following from the list of words in future games wench, slave, fibre, agora, pupal, lynch And removed the following from the list of words that are accepted as guesses (in addition to the above ones): gooks, darky, pussy, spick, spics, bitch, fagot, dyked, coons, spiks, sluts, dykey, faggy, homos, chink, dykes, lesbo, kikes, whore Most of those I get, but why did fibre, agora, and pupal get p…

I don't really see the motivation for removing slurs, etc, from the available guess list in a game where you are the only one who sees your guesses. Good of them to take the words with unpleasant associations out of the solutions list, though.

1984 explains the motivation.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by sodality2 »

u2077 wrote: post #84

Is there a clone that keeps the old UI and the same answers? (Could possibly scrape the site or twitter posts to determine the answer each day) Wordle isn’t even gone and I already miss it.

I simply downloaded the HTML and rehosted it on my site: https://matthew.science/wordle.html

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by cool_dude85 »

ejstronge wrote: post #102
pklausler wrote: post #34

Pour one out for a rare spot of joy in a dark time. I'll miss my morning Wordle and chatting about it with my friends. But I'll be damned if I go anywhere near a "news" source that gives a climate science denier a platform on its op-ed page, good puzzles or not.

I understand your concern, but newsdesks and op-ed pages aren't run by the same folks in reputable organizations - which leads to situations like the one you are describing.

I mean, not directly, but ultimately they are, right? The guy in charge of the paper?

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by godmode2019 »

banana_giraffe wrote: post #48

They've also removed the following from the list of words in future games wench, slave, fibre, agora, pupal, lynch And removed the following from the list of words that are accepted as guesses (in addition to the above ones): gooks, darky, pussy, spick, spics, bitch, fagot, dyked, coons, spiks, sluts, dykey, faggy, homos, chink, dykes, lesbo, kikes, whore Most of those I get, but why did fibre, agora, and pupal get p…

They forgot 'Trump'

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by gnicholas »

shbooms wrote: post #109
g_p wrote: post #20

Rejecting the cookie banner pops up a timed overlay (only appearing after you dismiss the game's onboarding guide) telling you that your cookie preferences are saved, unless you don't save cookies... If you don't save cookies, this appears for 5 or so seconds above the keyboard every time you load the site. A small nag, but a good reminder of the decay in user experience as soon as sites start adding tracking and sim…

> there's presumably little/no acquisition value in the eyes of the NYT without this tracking. I pay their $4.99/month subscription for access to their "Games" package solely because it includes access to their full archive of daily crosswords (going back to 1993). If they add a similar "archive" of the daily Wordles and allow payed users to replay past puzzles, that could presumably provide new value to them by enti…

FYI, there's already an archive that's free to use. [1] Although it shows basic stats, I was surprised that it doesn't show stats on how many guesses you took.

1: https://metzger.media/games/wordle-archive

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by mdasen »

jimbursch1 wrote: post #30

What is NYT going to gain from this purchase? Or, what am I giving to NYT when I play this game over coffee every morning?

It was a cheap game for the NYTimes to purchase (low 7-figures so probably $1-4M), it's something that people love, and it'll attract a lot of new people to the NYTimes Games brand. For now, that's probably enough. They threw a few million at someone that created something that lots of people loved and it gives the game the institutional backing to continue on indefinitely. I'm not saying that the guy wouldn't have continued Wordle, but he was one person who might get hit by a bus.

In the long run, the NYTimes has so many options - and if they decide to do nothing other than continue a game people love, it's not like a couple million is an insane sum for them to "waste" on something that puts their brand in front of so many people every day.

1) It makes people aware that the NYTimes has lots of different word game options. 2) It makes people think of the NYTimes a lot. 3) They could put a link to a single story on the page. 4) They could offer an up-sell to a SuperWordle or something as part of their games package that might offer slightly different puzzles (sure, you can get Wordle clones all over the web, but a lot of people might not care about $3-4/mo for an NYTimes Games subscription). 5) Wordle could become premium in the future - or maybe just the Sunday edition is premium.

There are so many options. Some might be less user-friendly, but there are a lot of user-friendly options. When you buy something for cheap, you don't need to leverage it a lot to justify the purchase.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by not2b »

ece wrote: post #90

Saw this before 4pm today and entered the word I solved at 4:30pm yesterday. Solved in 1. :)

Not sure why people are bragging about that (this is the second such comment I saw). You could already solve in on the desktop and then "solve in 1" on your phone, of course.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by dankwizard »

joek1301 wrote: post #104
throwaway81523 wrote: post #81

I used "view source" on the pre-NYT version and got a blob of minified javascript that I was able to run through a prettifier and I guess it is decipherable, but was there an earlier, un-minified version? Like every other hacker who has played it, I'm trying to write a personal clone.

The original WORDLE also used minified JavaScript, but there are some resources on reverse engineering it, if all you're interested is learning how the words are picked [1]. [1]: https://reichel.dev/blog/reverse-engineering-wordle.html

It isn't that complex - If you compare the word list in source to the word each day, you'll see that it is just using the list in order.
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