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Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by paulcole »

DecoPerson wrote: post #60
banana_giraffe wrote: post #48

They've also removed the following from the list of words in future games wench, slave, fibre, agora, pupal, lynch And removed the following from the list of words that are accepted as guesses (in addition to the above ones): gooks, darky, pussy, spick, spics, bitch, fagot, dyked, coons, spiks, sluts, dykey, faggy, homos, chink, dykes, lesbo, kikes, whore Most of those I get, but why did fibre, agora, and pupal get p…

FIBRE is spelt FIBER in American English. AGORA is a rarely-used word and is probably not in the dictionary referenced by The NY Times for their word puzzles. PUPAL may be mis-perceived as a misspelling of PUPIL and frustrate players. I don’t know… I’m guessing!

Wrong. Agora was accepted as of March 26, 2021 — and I’m quite certain it’s been seen since.

https://nytspellingbeeanswers.org/nyt-spelling-bee-answers-0...

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by ejstronge »

pklausler wrote: post #34

Pour one out for a rare spot of joy in a dark time. I'll miss my morning Wordle and chatting about it with my friends. But I'll be damned if I go anywhere near a "news" source that gives a climate science denier a platform on its op-ed page, good puzzles or not.

I understand your concern, but newsdesks and op-ed pages aren't run by the same folks in reputable organizations - which leads to situations like the one you are describing.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by rising-sky »

bee_rider wrote: post #85
jyap wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine this scenario. People can easily make a whole game panel of these word guesses, then post a screen shot on social media. Then cancel culture mob takes over.

I don't see much being held to that standard, for example you can write these words in notepad but nobody has come for Microsoft on this front.

Imagine this scenario, you open Wordle to guess the word for the day. You put in your guesses and manage to guess it right, but it's a slur that's been used against you on many occasions and now you have to relive traumatic episodes, when all you wanted was a positive experience?

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by joek1301 »

throwaway81523 wrote: post #81

I used "view source" on the pre-NYT version and got a blob of minified javascript that I was able to run through a prettifier and I guess it is decipherable, but was there an earlier, un-minified version? Like every other hacker who has played it, I'm trying to write a personal clone.

The original WORDLE also used minified JavaScript, but there are some resources on reverse engineering it, if all you're interested is learning how the words are picked [1].

[1]: https://reichel.dev/blog/reverse-engineering-wordle.html

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by alex-chew »

I've been working on a clean-room reimplementation that uses the original word list and is visually similar to the original, but also allows for playing unlimited puzzles each day: https://wrd.li

(The order of the solutions is different than the original, and is randomized each day.)

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by bee_rider »

rising-sky wrote: post #103
bee_rider wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see much being held to that standard, for example you can write these words in notepad but nobody has come for Microsoft on this front.

Imagine this scenario, you open Wordle to guess the word for the day. You put in your guesses and manage to guess it right, but it's a slur that's been used against you on many occasions and now you have to relive traumatic episodes, when all you wanted was a positive experience?

The game has two word lists -- a "possible solution" set and an "allowed guess" set. They removed:

* some words with negative connotations from the solution set

* slurs from the allowed guess set

As such, I believe there already weren't any slurs in the possible solution set. Or at least they weren't in the group of words which were mentioned as removed here. So, your scenario was already not possible.

I think removing the words with negative connotations from the solution set was a great move because, while they aren't slurs, there's no need to give people that negative experience.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by shbooms »

g_p wrote: post #20

Rejecting the cookie banner pops up a timed overlay (only appearing after you dismiss the game's onboarding guide) telling you that your cookie preferences are saved, unless you don't save cookies... If you don't save cookies, this appears for 5 or so seconds above the keyboard every time you load the site. A small nag, but a good reminder of the decay in user experience as soon as sites start adding tracking and sim…

> there's presumably little/no acquisition value in the eyes of the NYT without this tracking.

I pay their $4.99/month subscription for access to their "Games" package solely because it includes access to their full archive of daily crosswords (going back to 1993).

If they add a similar "archive" of the daily Wordles and allow payed users to replay past puzzles, that could presumably provide new value to them by enticing more paying customers.

Re: Wordle Now Redirects to NYT

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Post by jrochkind1 »

jdorsey1 wrote: post #25
tuankiet65 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently the old Wordle URL redirects to the new NYT page, and it includes the statistics as a JSON in the URL so the new page know what's the old statistics is.

This is clearly a violation of privacy because the url is unencrypted. NYT may face a billionaire lawsuit and his future is compromised.

I find the idea amusing that exposing people's wordle scores would result in billion dollar damages. My life was ruined because someone was able to find out 60% of my wins are on 6 guesses!
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