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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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I like this one! Clean and minimalist. Did you make it? 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.
I love the idea, but on my iPhone SE the 5x5 square overlaps with the keyboard, making it hard to play.
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Do you know of any rehosts of the old Wordle code?
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.
I checked the other commenter's rehost and it also used NYT's word. So does this mean all supposed "rehosts" don't and can't work if the word list still defaults to NYT's?
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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.
Hmm. The #241 word was changed between original and NYT, and I just played your copy and it was using the NYT word instead of Josh's. I don't want to spoil the 2 words here so here's a link to Mashable that covers the two different words to the same puzzle number. https://mashable.com/article/wordle-241-glitch-answer I checked the other commenter's rehost and it also used NYT's word. So does this mean all supposed "r…
Original: #241 agora, #242 aroma, #243 caulk, #244 shake
NYT list: #241 aroma, #242 caulk, #243 shake, #244
Because I got Aroma instead of Agora on your rehost and didn't check the puzzle number, and because I took Mashable's word that Aroma was a replacement for Agora, I mistakenly thought your rehost was using NYT's word list.
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.
Do you know of any rehosts of the old Wordle code?