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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The New York Times, which bought Wordle, has made a couple of changes to the game, including having just one solution per day.
Initially, every player in the world was trying to guess the same five-letter word. Still, players started noticing different solutions on the same day.
Although most Wordle players have been playing on The New York Times’ hosted site, at nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html, some people continue to play the game on its original powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle. Suppose you refresh your browser page or open that link in a new browser window. In that case, you will be automatically redirected to the Times’ Wordle page. But suppose you had kept the original site open or downloaded the game. In that case, you could continue to play the old version of Wordle, reported CNN Business.
That’s how two solutions can exist at once. Most of us Wordle fans played on The New York Times page, but some of us are still playing the old version.
***SPOILER ALERT FOR ORIGINAL-GAME WORDLE PLAYERS***
The New York Times eliminated some of the original game’s solutions, words it found to be too difficult. (some including “pupal,” “fibre,” and “agora.”). It also took out some rude or offensive words from the list of solutions (including “wench” and “slave”), according to CNN Business.
“We are updating the word list overtime to remove obscure words to keep the puzzle accessible to more people and insensitive or offensive words,” said Jordan Cohen, spokesman for The New York Times, in a statement. “Eventually, we will permanently redirect users to the NYTimes.com URL, at which point everyone should be playing the same version, as long as they refresh their browsers.”
Some Wordle players had taken it to social media to complain that the puzzle’s most recent solutions are more complex than before The New York Times took over. But, if that’s the case, it was just a coincidence.
The solutions to the original Wordle game were predetermined through October 20, 2027, due to the 2,315 solutions embedded in the game’s code. This mean the game was playable offline and could be downloaded onto phones or computers. The New York Times (NYT) hasn’t said if it plans to make any more changes or additions to that initial list, reported CNN Business.
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Wordle players were upset about losing their statistics when the game migrated to The New York Times.
“Our priority is making sure people can carry their stats and streaks from the original site. This is a migration happening over time as people play,” Cohen said.
Not among those upset about the Times’ takeover of Wordle: The folks at The New York Times. Recently, traffic to its website surged 11%, according to data tracker Similarweb.
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