Here Goes Wordle

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Clarissa

January 31, 2022

Just as I started enjoying Wordle. . .

The hit game Wordle has been purchased by the New York Times Company for a price "in the low seven figures," the company said. https://t.co/XZhY6kW3mv
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 31, 2022

Let’s place bets on how they will wokeify and destroy the game.

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10 responses to “Here Goes Wordle”

Demotrash

January 31, 2022

Paywall, here we come

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1. Pen
  
  January 31, 2022
  
  They openly admit they plan to paywall. It fucking sucks.
  
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  1. Stille (@aperfectbalance)
    
    February 1, 2022
    
    Wordle works entirely in-page rather than requiring anything server-side, so all the information needed to have a functioning copy of it exists on a saved offline copy of the webpage itself 🙂 In Firefox, this is save page as, and then open the saved page. You’ll lose your current stats though.
    
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    1. bluebird of bitterness
      
      February 2, 2022
      
      Thanks for the tip. 🙂
      
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2. Clarissa
  
  February 1, 2022
  
  Forget paywall. The next word will be womxn. And nobody will guess except the most brainwashed.
  
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  1. Maria
    
    February 1, 2022
    
    At least you can assume it will never be ‘WHITE’, lol. And it will be always a good idea start with ‘BLACK”.
    
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cliff arroyo

February 1, 2022

As long as they leave absurdle alone I don’t care…

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1. Physpostdoc
  
  February 1, 2022
  
  😀
  
  I recently tried your suggestion about forcing it into accepting a word of my choosing. The algorithm is more clever than I gave it credit for — I tried constraining it by eliminating certain carefully chosen sets of vowels with some minimal assumptions: for instance, assuming that in the very first try it always shows all black (no matches) etc. since ut is only eliminating word groups at that point. Nope! it started showing some yellows right in the first go.
  
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  1. cliff arroyo
    
    February 1, 2022
    
    “The algorithm is more clever than I gave it credit for ”
    
    Oh no! It’s gaining sentience! We have to stop immediately and just hope we’re not too late…. I’ve gotta go now and check out my underground station.
    
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    1. Physpostdoc
      
      February 1, 2022
      
      AI-powered Absurdle would indeed be devious!
      
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