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The newspaper say they’re engaged on an answer

A Wordle grid guessing the words STATS, WORRY, ERROR.

The smash-hit day by day phrase puzzle Wordle has moved over to the web site of the New York Times, who just lately purchased it for seven figures, and the transition has been a bit bumpy. While the NYT model is meant to import stats from the unique web site, some gamers have been unfortunate. The NYT say they’re working to repair it. Their model is usually the identical however gamers have observed a couple of modifications, supposedly together with a couple of phrases being eliminated.

The NYT’s Wordle FAQ stated they’ve mechanically transferred statistics, together with streaks, from the outdated web site to their very own. They did warn that stats are saved domestically in your browser, so you need to use the identical system and browser in the event that they did not look proper. But there may be an precise technical downside past that.

At 9:25pm on Thursday, the NYT’s Wordplay account tweeted that they had been conscious some gamers had their streak reset. The newest replace got here 5 hours later:

🚨 Wordle replace! We have recognized the issue affecting customers’ streaks and are actively engaged on an answer. Thank you on your persistence.

— NYTimes Wordplay (@NYTimesWordplay) February 11, 2022

Fingers crossed on your all-important streak, reader pricey.

While the NYT say that they have not modified the best way you play Wordle, they may have modified one thing. Reddit poster “randybruder” says they in contrast the phrase lists (Wordle options are picked from a listing you possibly can see with a little bit technorummaging) and located the NYT’s model of Wordle is lacking six phrases that had been within the authentic. I’ve checked and yup, these are gone.

One of these is probably going eliminated as a result of it is spelled otherwise in American English and English English. This localisation scenario beforehand precipitated controversy with the solutions favor and humor, as a result of who thinks to attempt nonexistent made-up dreamland phrases? Two of the others eliminated are slave and lynch and yeah, I positive can see why they’d would not need these as puzzle solutions. Likewise, I perceive why they is perhaps cautious of wench. But I am unable to guess why they might have eliminated agora and pupal and I do not need to Google alternate meanings to those phrases in case they turn into horrifying cyberfetishes beforehand unknown to me. Fan-made Wordle variants nonetheless utilizing the unique listing will diverge from the official Wordle as soon as the primary of those comes up, which randybruder says can be on Tuesday.

The Reddit poster additionally claimed that 19 phrases have been faraway from the allowed guess listing, most of them offensive or ethnic slurs. Yep I can perceive eradicating these too.

You can play Wordle on its new house on the NYT Games web site, the place it is nonetheless free.

Wordle has impressed an excellent many video games taking some points of its grids and guesses in attention-grabbing new instructions. Worldle has you guess international locations from their silhouettes, Semantle is extraordinarily tough with no fastened phrase size, Sweardle makes use of cuss phrases, and Dungleon has you guess a dungeon composition. And that is solely a handful of ’em.

Don’t fear: no spoilers right here! I did not use in the present day’s puzzle to create the header picture ↑ up there, it is from earlier this week.