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A Note About Today’s Wordle Game
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
They’re trying not to spoil the puzzle?
That'd be a reason to not mention the replacement word, but they could have mentioned the one they removed.
The article states that some players will still see the one they removed, which is the problematically-timed word in question.
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#23I'm surprised the NYT still uses a big randomized word list that was decided upon 'last year'. Why not pick Wordle words, say, one week out? It's not a ton of a work: probably less work over the course of a year than writing a single apology letter for an accidental collision that it would have prevented.
Wordle was developed by a guy for his girlfriend. Then it went viral and NYT bought it. This is what happens and I find it charming. People need to chill out.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
That'd be a reason to not mention the replacement word, but they could have mentioned the one they removed.
The article states that some players will still see the one they removed, which is the problematically-timed word in question.
But players who read this article will know to force-refresh to get their replacement word.
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#25Sooo, “fetus” is a word dangerous enough that it requires a 350 word explainer article to accompany it?
It's not dangerous, it's just bad timing. It makes it look like NYT "chose" that word because of the recent ruling and is making a political statement, even though it's totally random.
It isn't random, it's just word 333 in the list of words to use, and it's been on the list for a while.
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#26That's funny because "plant" was a solution on Earth Day, I thought that was suspicious too...
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#27In case there's a paywall for the editor's note: the tl;dr is that today's word was originally supposed to be "FETUS". Last week the NYT noticed this and made a change, but this change wouldn't propagate to all the Wordle players who still have the cached word list in their browsers. Full text below: It’s been just over three months since The New York Times acquired Wordle, the hugely popular puzzle created by Josh W…
I’m a bit puzzled on why do such a thing at all, but okay.
Same reason you might want to avoid "rifle" the day after a mass school shooting. The US is in the midst of an "abortion law" crisis (undoing abortion and birth control rights in order put women "back in their place", rolling back half a century of progress), and now is not the time for the word they replaced.
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#28In case there's a paywall for the editor's note: the tl;dr is that today's word was originally supposed to be "FETUS". Last week the NYT noticed this and made a change, but this change wouldn't propagate to all the Wordle players who still have the cached word list in their browsers. Full text below: It’s been just over three months since The New York Times acquired Wordle, the hugely popular puzzle created by Josh W…
"current Wordle technology" is one of the things that made it so great -- it was /is client-side. I understand that NYT didn't want to step in it, and it was probably a smart decision, but I'd love to live in a world where the editor chose to say, "Well, we defined that word list many months ago and it happened to come up today. The public reaction to today's Wordle simply emphasizes the fact that words, even a singl…
The "we" wouldn't be The New York Times, though. The "we" was Wardle's girlfriend.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am surprised that they are not stating the word explicitly, only vaguely as "closely connected to a major recent news event" ("He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" comes to mind as an association) Edit: the wording was updated to be more constructive
They’re trying not to spoil the puzzle?
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m a bit puzzled on why do such a thing at all, but okay.
Same reason you might want to avoid "rifle" the day after a mass school shooting. The US is in the midst of an "abortion law" crisis (undoing abortion and birth control rights in order put women "back in their place", rolling back half a century of progress), and now is not the time for the word they replaced.
That's a gross mischaracterization of what's going on. The fact is the web of tissue-thin Supreme Court decisions never should have taken the place of a law. Congress needs to get off its collective tukus and pass a law; their job as the Legislative Branch.
That they haven't done so is because they want this to be a wedge issue that drives people to go vote. The tenuous nature of privacy precedent was too useful as a political tool to be fixed.
Regardless, I do wish we'd grow thicker skins so that we don't waste time wringing our hands about ordinary words in puzzle games causing emotional trauma.