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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 eyelidlessness »

woolly wrote: post #4
ihuman wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The article also mentions this: > February 10 was the last day Wordle was still available at its old site. Which doesn't appear to be the case, it is still accessible at the powerlanguage address.

Several people were redirected to the NYT version before I was, as discussed in my Wordle group. I suspect they did this as a gradual transition to validate the migration. I wasn’t redirected until yesterday.

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by Rebelgecko »

askvictor wrote: post #52
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.

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...

Removed from the allowed guesses. If you guess "slave" and hit enter you'll receive an error.

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by Rebelgecko »

Buldak wrote: post #35
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.

I suppose they're both vulgar, but one difference is that "pussy" has a derogatory use that "boner" doesn't have.

It seems inconsistent that dick (which can refer to a penis, a jerk, or a Richard) is still allowed, if they're worried about derogatory meanings.

Quick edit: DICKS is allowed, DICK is only 4 letters

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by bencollier49 »

bee_rider wrote: post #28
bencollier49 wrote: post #12

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Why?

There are two lists: guesses you are allowed to make, and possible solutions from the puzzle. From the solutions list they removed some words that had different British and American spellings, as well as some words with negative associations, like "slave." From the possible guesses list, the words removed appeared to mostly be quite offensive slurs.

Ah, good. The Americanisms did my nut in. 5 thumbs up.

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by alpaca128 »

function_seven wrote: post #43
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

So it just told me that SPANKS, BALLS, and TEAMS are all not in the dictionary. What are the rules for this one?

Not sure, but all three examples you listed are plural. Maybe they didn't include such variants?

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Post by treeman79 »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #73
Buldak wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suppose they're both vulgar, but one difference is that "pussy" has a derogatory use that "boner" doesn't have.

It seems inconsistent that dick (which can refer to a penis, a jerk, or a Richard) is still allowed, if they're worried about derogatory meanings. Quick edit: DICKS is allowed, DICK is only 4 letters

My wife was returning something from the store Dicks. She needed the receipt and knew it had been emailed to me. A quick check and I didn’t see any such email.

So in all seriousness, while I’m at work on a open floor plain facing computer she asked me to search my spam folder for Dicks.

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by function_seven »

alpaca128 wrote: post #75
function_seven wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So it just told me that SPANKS, BALLS, and TEAMS are all not in the dictionary. What are the rules for this one?

Not sure, but all three examples you listed are plural. Maybe they didn't include such variants?

That was it! Not sure how I didn’t notice that.

Also think I might like that. Thanks.

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by bee_rider »

bencollier49 wrote: post #74
bee_rider wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are two lists: guesses you are allowed to make, and possible solutions from the puzzle. From the solutions list they removed some words that had different British and American spellings, as well as some words with negative associations, like "slave." From the possible guesses list, the words removed appeared to mostly be quite offensive slurs.

Ah, good. The Americanisms did my nut in. 5 thumbs up.

* Americanizmz

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by JonathanBuchh »

wch wrote: post #67
JonathanBuchh wrote: post #44

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I made a copy the day The New York Times bought Wordle: https://buchh.fun/wordle Thanks to Josh for making Wordle with a free license.

Did the original Wordle have a free license? I don't recall seeing license information anywhere.

It's still there in the JavaScript file.

> Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.

It appears to be the Zero-Clause BSD, but for some reason, it says Microsoft holds the copyright. Could original author must have used something with the same license to write Wordle? If it isn't a free license and I am misinterpreting the code, I would be happy to take my version down.

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