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Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by afavour »

ihuman wrote: post #3
b3morales wrote: post #2

This is interesting info, but...what paywall? The old URL https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/ still goes directly to the puzzle (redirecting to nytimes.com).

The article is talking about "the inevitable New York Times paywall", not one right now

I keep seeing that but I’d be amazed if NYT paywalled it. They’ll just add derivative versions and stuff like that for subscribers. Much like how their daily mini crossword is free to all.

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Post by dspillett »

bencollier49 wrote: post #12
tibbar wrote: post #8

The new Wordle has a shorter word list (down from about 12k to about 10k valid guess words). EDIT: both lists are about the same length (12k); a small number of words were removed.

Why?

We can only guess, but perhaps they've applied some sort of commonality filter and dropped words that are rarely used? Or perhaps they've simply moved more words from the guess list into the challenge list? (the challenge list was produced from what words one person immediately recognised, after all)

Or, most likely IMO, they were not 100% certain they could legally use the existing word list (now, or for what they plan for the future) or were certain they couldn't without paying for some sort of license, so they produced a new list from scratch from a source they have licensed for their other word games.

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Post by ufo »

TeaVMFan wrote: post #14

Easier still, try one of the alternatives like Wordii: https://frequal.com/wordii Bonus features: * Streak stats to share * Try new words faster

The hard part of of the article is getting the history file from Local Storage. If you don't care about that then it's much easier.

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by progbits »

b3morales wrote: post #2

This is interesting info, but...what paywall? The old URL https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/ still goes directly to the puzzle (redirecting to nytimes.com).

Well it already has a modal cookie popup so the experience has degraded right away. Sure, it is not _that bad_, but the trend is clear.

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by shadowfacts »

tibbar wrote: post #8

The new Wordle has a shorter word list (down from about 12k to about 10k valid guess words). EDIT: both lists are about the same length (12k); a small number of words were removed.

It is shorter, but only by 19 removed words and 6 removed answers. Compare for yourself:

https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/main.bd4cb59c.js

https://web.archive.org/web/20220210034340id_/https://www.po...

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Post by sbierwagen »

avalys wrote: post #13
tibbar wrote: post #8

The new Wordle has a shorter word list (down from about 12k to about 10k valid guess words). EDIT: both lists are about the same length (12k); a small number of words were removed.

What's an example of a word that was removed? Any pattern there?

https://boingboing.net/2022/02/11/pussy-pupal-and-agora-amon... "Lynch", "slave", a series of racial slurs, etc.

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Post by Rebelgecko »

avalys wrote: post #13
tibbar wrote: post #8

The new Wordle has a shorter word list (down from about 12k to about 10k valid guess words). EDIT: both lists are about the same length (12k); a small number of words were removed.

What's an example of a word that was removed? Any pattern there?

The day they moved to the NYT they removed words that could refer to the female anatomy (like "pussy"), as well as words referring to certain unpleasant concepts (e.g. slavery). They retained words referring to male genitalia (like "boner"). Make of that what you will.
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