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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 bee_rider »

b3morales wrote: post #37
bee_rider wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The game has two lists -- one list that includes 'valid guesses' (things you can enter), and one that is a list of things that could actually end up as the solution. 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.

What's the game's reason for having two lists instead of just one?

At least in the first version of the game, the 'solutions' list was actually just a sequential list of what the answer would be for each given day. So, calling them 'possible solutions' on my part was actually a little misleading (sorry), there's no probability going on or anything like that. Not sure if NYT changed it.

The value is that we all get the same answer, so which makes it more fun to compare our results (this does mean that you can just cheat and look up the answer, and it might have been possible to obscure the list somehow, but probably getting into an escalating war with cheaters was not a priority for such a simple little free game).

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by askvictor »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #20
avalys wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They removed them from the allowed guesses list, or the possible answers list? I might be convinced about removing them from the possible answers, but the allowed guesses should be basically all possible English 5-letter words. Even if they make some argument about kids typing rude words in a classroom activity, well, kids are going to do that anyway...

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by baking »

not2b wrote: post #45

Note that as of now there is no paywall, going to the old URL forwards to the new URL and game history is kept (my streak is 38 days now), and the small number of removed words doesn't affect gameplay. Perhaps it makes sense for addicts to grab the original version just in case the NYT eventually restricts access, but so far they haven't.

I lost my history at the change over. Not sure why. But my streak wasn't much to speak of because of the whole light/eight/fight/might/night/right/sight/tight/etc. fiasco on January 31.

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by bitwize »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #20
avalys wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

"Boner" can also mean a tremendous mistake -- negative connotation, but neither a slur nor a genitalia reference.

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by MattRix »

culi wrote: post #46
shadowfacts wrote: post #18

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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...

There's a bit of confusion here because there's actually 2 word lists. There's a list of ~2,300 words that are ACTUAL words that will some day be the word of the day and there's a list of 12k POSSIBLE words you can enter in I think OP is correct about them removing ~2k of the possible words

The “possible” words are added to the “answer” words to get the full list of guessable words, which is still around 12k just like it always was.

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by adeelk93 »

bitwize wrote: post #58
Rebelgecko wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

"Boner" can also mean a tremendous mistake -- negative connotation, but neither a slur nor a genitalia reference.

Which makes it distinct from a pussycat how?
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