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Unique website and NY Occasions confuse gamers with various solutions

February 15, 2022

No, you are not going mad. The splintering of Wordle has arrived.

Because the clock hit midnight all over the world on Feb. 14 and a brand new Wordle refreshed itself on browsers all over the place, gamers found that for the primary time, that day’s reply wasn’t the identical phrase for everybody. (Don’t be concerned — I will not spoil the answer till the tip of the publish.)

This obvious glitch additionally occurred in my family, the place we clear up it individually over our morning espresso — when my accomplice and I each had all 5 tiles flip inexperienced, we in contrast notes and located that we would wound up with completely different solutions, each right, for the primary time in over a month of taking part in.

The important thing factor right here is that I am nonetheless taking part in on the unique website, powerlanguage.co.uk, the place creator Josh Wardle first uploaded the sport. Most gamers have been migrated routinely to the New York Occasions web site, after the corporate purchased the sport from Wardle in a seven-figure deal final month — and that group consists of my accomplice, in addition to many of the pals within the group chat the place we share our outcomes. After shedding a 12-day streak once I switched telephones, I have never closed the tab the place my present 44-day streak lives, magically refreshing every evening on the stroke of 12. (Streaks had been, after some temporary points, carried over to the brand new website, however I’m each an enormous show-off and selectively superstitious, so I have been placing it off so long as I can simply in case.)

It quickly turned clear that Wordle recreation 241 was truly two completely different video games, relying on which model of the positioning you are utilizing.

Here is the place you cease studying when you do not wish to know the reply to recreation 241 — simply know that the inexperienced tiles converse the reality, whichever website you are on.

All the glossary, so as, was seen within the website code for the sport from day one, and remains to be on-line for anybody who desires to negate the complete level of taking part in the sport. As famous by BoingBoing a couple of days in the past, a number of phrases had been faraway from the record when the Occasions took over the sport. These embrace, understandably, some loaded phrases the NYT clearly most well-liked to keep away from, together with SLAVE, LYNCH, and WENCH, but additionally some much less apparent ones, together with PUPAL (?), FIBRE (the British English spelling of “fiber”)… and AGORA, the phrase initially slated for Feb. 15, 2022. (Some naughty phrases had been additionally faraway from the broader record of legitimate guesses, however not less than there’s all the time Lewdle.)

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The outdated and new recreation 241 options have all however one letter in widespread, with only one shared letter in a unique place, suggesting the Occasions‘s adjusted resolution — AROMA — was presumably chosen for its similarity to the deleted unique.

I reached out to the Occasions for extra data, however Australian journalist Michael Slezak has shared an e mail from the corporate that implies a number of the extra esoteric phrases on the unique record are being nixed “to maintain the puzzle accessible”.

That is extremely unlikely to be the tip of the common Wordle, however it’s kind of of a prod to the OG-site stragglers to lastly make the leap if we wish to protect that communal vibe. A fast Crtl+F of the unique record reveals that not less than one of many already-removed phrases is scheduled to return up this month, so anybody who’s nonetheless clinging to the pre-Occasions days goes to have this subject once more quickly.

Nonetheless, there’s an plain lesson in immediately’s glitch: AGORA is a tougher phrase to guess than AROMA, and people of us who received it? We’re merely higher than you. SORRY.