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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.
Imagine this scenario. People can easily make a whole game panel of these word guesses, then post a screen shot on social media. Then cancel culture mob takes over.
They paid the money to own it. I am not mad about it. You can literally save the HTML and play it if you really care not to see NYT logo. This is a good story for an indie game to be honest
And anyway, isn't the NYT supposed to be reporting news or something? Since when has the most prestigious newspaper become a hub for fooling around?
huh evidently I've been playing the wrong one with my friends: https://wordle.nyc/
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…
FIBRE is spelt FIBER in American English. AGORA is a rarely-used word and is probably not in the dictionary referenced by The NY Times for their word puzzles. PUPAL may be mis-perceived as a misspelling of PUPIL and frustrate players. I don’t know… I’m guessing!
I've been working on a clean-room reimplementation that uses the original word list and is visually similar to the original, but also allows for playing unlimited puzzles each day: https://wrd.li (The order of the solutions is different than the original, and is randomized each day.)
Pretty nice implementation, but it's missing the best feature: social sharing
I'll take the feedback that this feature should definitely be made more obvious.
They paid the money to own it. I am not mad about it. You can literally save the HTML and play it if you really care not to see NYT logo. This is a good story for an indie game to be honest
Surely the creator could have made more money by serving ads or something. I doubt the NYT paid them the full lifetime value of the site. And anyway, isn't the NYT supposed to be reporting news or something? Since when has the most prestigious newspaper become a hub for fooling around?
I thought it had wiped all the scores because I already played today's. But I think I must have played it during the migration period or something because it was the same word, and after getting it my previous stats are there.
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.
Otherwise, yes, it should rarely be an issue.
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care to elaborate?
The NYT Crossword minis release at 7pm PDT so everyone gets it at the same time. This way, everyone can corroborate times, talk about the puzzle, etc. if you want. With Wordle releasing at 12am your timezone, it gets confusing when someone could be talking about the next day's or previous day's puzzle.