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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
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...
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?
From the possible solutions list, they removed words that have negative associations -- stuff like "slave."
From the guesses list, they mostly removed things like slurs.
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).
Easier still, try one of the alternatives like Wordii: https://frequal.com/wordii Bonus features: * Streak stats to share * Try new words faster
Shameless self-plug, but if anyone is interested in alternatives with an added challenge, I made https://squareword.org where you guess words to uncover a word square of 5x5 letters. Feedback has been positive and looks like user numbers are picking up, doubling about once per week so far.
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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.
If I told you that tonight I will "initially" be watching Evil Dead II, you're going to have some questions about what I'm doing afterward.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/business/media/new-york-t...
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?
From the possible guesses list, the words removed appeared to mostly be quite offensive slurs.
Every other action freezes the entire page while some event gets processed. And by event I mean like "clicked the 'L' button", the most basic actions in the game.
I guess I'll just stick with the alternatives from now on.
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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...
Oh, hmm. Perhaps the list has been changed multiple times? It was originally 12972 words (see https://www.poirrier.ca/notes/wordle-optimal/ ) and was 10638 words as of yesterday. Anyway, some of the words that have been removed are slurs/profanity.
So the 10638 words are the set of all possible guesses minus the set of all the solutions.