The New York Times changed Wordle’s list of solutions to avoid answering today’s puzzle, which would “look like[ed] closely linked to a major recent news event, “the company said in a public note this morning.
Today’s originally planned solution, FETUS, was first added to the game’s word list last year when Wordle creator Josh Wardle added it to a random list of approximately 2,300 five-letter words designed to define the daily word game for years. forward. The New York Times shifted that term to the end of the list of game decisions, where it is now scheduled to appear sometime in late 2027 (it remains to be seen whether today’s news is focused on Supreme Court ruling Rowe against Wade so worrying until then ).
Copies of the Wordle website in the online archive show that the Times is making a change to today’s puzzle sometime on May 6th. As such, players who have not refreshed the Wordle website in the last few days “may see an outdated response that seems closely related to a major recent news event,” according to the Times.
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Players who do not update will also remain out of sync with others playing the updated version of the game. The Times writes that it “continues to find challenges” after the acquisition of the seven-digit game in January. “We’re now working on updating Wordle technology so that everyone always gets the same word.”
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Calling the initial deployment of FETUS “unintentional” and “coincidental,” the Times writes that “we take our role seriously as a place to have fun and escape, and we want Wordle to stay different from the news.” But due to current Wordle technology, it can be difficult to change words that have already been loaded into the game. When we found out last week that this particular word would be presented today, we changed it to as many crucial tasks as possible. “
Last week’s edits in the list of words that can be seen by looking at the source code of the Javascript game also pushed a handful of other words – BUTCH, STALK, FLACK, WIDOW and AUGUR – to the bottom of the list of solutions.
In February, the Times removed seven upcoming Wordle solutions (and 25 valid guess options) from the game’s rotation, mostly to remove gender or race insults. At the end of March, the company released 18 more solutions in the back of the line, including VOMIT, FANNY, ECLAT and FELLA.
In a recent earnings call, the Times said Wordle, which remains free, has brought “tens of millions” of new players to the site’s Games section and “has played a key role in quarterly engagement and subscriber growth.”
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