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?
Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators
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Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That URL currently redirects to the NYT version of the game, although it's possible that browsers may continue to cache and display a previously-requested version of the page contents (avoiding a redirect, at least while the cache remains valid).
That's what I've got on my phone, hasn't redirected to new york times and still running the version on powerlanguage
Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators
#43Easier 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?
Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators
#44The 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?
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.
Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators
#45Note that as of now there is no paywall, going to the old URL forwards to the new URL and game history is kept (my streak is 38 days now), and the small number of removed words doesn't affect gameplay. Perhaps it makes sense for addicts to grab the original version just in case the NYT eventually restricts access, but so far they haven't.
Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators
#46The 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.
It is shorter, but only by 19 removed words and 6 removed answers. Compare for yourself: https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/main.bd4cb59c.js https://web.archive.org/web/20220210034340id_/https://www.po...
There's a bit of confusion here because there's actually 2 word lists. There's a list of ~2,300 words that are ACTUAL words that will some day be the word of the day and there's a list of 12k POSSIBLE words you can enter in
I think OP is correct about them removing ~2k of the possible words
Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators
#47The 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.
I think you're technically correct originally. They only removed less than two dozen from the ACTUAL word list but they did in fact remove ~2k from the list of possible words you can enter in (which is the list most players interact with)
Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators
#48Easier still, try one of the alternatives like Wordii: https://frequal.com/wordii Bonus features: * Streak stats to share * Try new words faster
Here's an amazing list of other wordles:
Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators
#49Easier still, try one of the alternatives like Wordii: https://frequal.com/wordii Bonus features: * Streak stats to share * Try new words faster
SHREK IS NOT IN THE DICTIONARY
Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article is talking about "the inevitable New York Times paywall", not one right now
I keep seeing that but I’d be amazed if NYT paywalled it. They’ll just add derivative versions and stuff like that for subscribers. Much like how their daily mini crossword is free to all.
I'd be amazed as well, they're far better off using it to promote themselves and try to bait you to try/look at other things. Paywalling it would just remove most of those daily users they just bought. Maybe when it dies off, then they will do that, but quite likely most people will use one of the many clones, especially the apps. The fad will die off really quick I'm thinking. To me it doesn't have the lasting power of things like sudoku.