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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.)
Honest q: could you get sued for that? Likely at least a cease and desist, right?
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…
Agora is the leading drug Darknet Marketplace. That is surely it, it is the only (negative) connotation and incident in culture.
That was a few weeks before he sold it for millions.
Turns out he cared a lot about money after all.
Remember when the wordle guy said he doesn’t care about money? That was a few weeks before he sold it for millions. Turns out he cared a lot about money after all.
I'll allow them this one.
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The NYT Crossword minis release at 7pm PDT so everyone gets it at the same time. This way, everyone can corroborate times, talk about the puzzle, etc. if you want. With Wordle releasing at 12am your timezone, it gets confusing when someone could be talking about the next day's or previous day's puzzle.
Send a different timezone to the server?
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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!
Probably reasonable guesses. Though, I'd expect these to be moved to allowed guesses, there's some very obscure stuff in the allowed guess list. Probably just a first pass by whoever's in charge of standards. Now I'm trying to guess if this was a simple pass with an "approved words" list, or if there was a mind-numbing meeting where they spent a day or two looking at words.
They paid the money to own it. I am not mad about it. You can literally save the HTML and play it if you really care not to see NYT logo. This is a good story for an indie game to be honest
Surely the creator could have made more money by serving ads or something. I doubt the NYT paid them the full lifetime value of the site. And anyway, isn't the NYT supposed to be reporting news or something? Since when has the most prestigious newspaper become a hub for fooling around?
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.)
Honest q: could you get sued for that? Likely at least a cease and desist, right?