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"The sudden hit Wordle, in which once a day players get six chances to guess a five-letter word, has been acquired by The New York Times Company."

The NYT reports.

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Jaq म्हणाले...

Nooooooooo!

[Insert GIF of Capt Kirk shouting "Kaaahhhnnnn!"]

wild chicken म्हणाले...

Oh no. Does that mean it'll be paywalled? I'm subscriber but didn't mean to make it a permanent thing.

Seems kinda grabby by NYT.

Earnest Prole म्हणाले...

Increasingly the New York Times' value comes from recipes, crosswords, and other games, not from original reporting.

RoseAnne म्हणाले...

NYT bought WORDLE?????????????????

Hopefully they won't screw it up.

BTW, sometimes, with little effort, it will allow 4 or 5 times in a row. Other days, it will stick with the one chance.

Clyde म्हणाले...

I can’t blame the guy for cashing in. I’ll play it until it gets paywalled.

Harold म्हणाले...

Thus ends my Wordle run, some kind of monetization is all but guaranteed but my real fear is that they will try to improve game somehow in order to justify getting the premium version.

fizzymagic म्हणाले...

Just lovely. Now they will try to make us pay. Not getting a penny from me.

Bender म्हणाले...

This is why we can't have nice things.

Crimso म्हणाले...

MONEY

dbp म्हणाले...

I'll keep playing, for now.

I've gone 22 days in a row now and haven't lost yet, though it took me all 6 guesses once. If they ask for money, or make the site too cluttered it will end my Wordle-playing era.

Kudos to the inventor, the interface is clean and I'm glad he got his 7-figures.

tcrosse म्हणाले...

There's a Wordle clone at Wordle Unlimited which, while it lasts, allows one to play as many times a day as one wishes.

rehajm म्हणाले...

There goes the neighborhood…

Mid-Life Lawyer म्हणाले...

The NYTimes also last month purchased The Athletic sports reporting site. I was a subscriber to The Athletic right up to the moment I got their exciting announcement that they had been acquired.

Joe Smith म्हणाले...

The first NYT Wordle word will be 'TRANS.'

Of course they'll fuck it up.

Jaq म्हणाले...

I lost on "REMIE" I am amazed that everybody else knew that word.

Jaq म्हणाले...

It was pretty weird that there were no ads. But this is worst case. Next they will be inserting words and deleting words based on the needs of the DCN at any given time. Words like 'guilt' when they have the next Trump show trial, oh yeah, and 'trial' will be another one 'graft' will be banned, and 'bribe' of course will be used or banned depending on the news cycle and if the DNC has decided to accuse the other side of what it is doing, like in the first impeachment, or on defense if Hunter ever gets investigated.

Ted म्हणाले...

The NY Times says Wordle will INITIALLY remain free, but is part of their overall strategy to increase online subscriptions.

So they're taking something free and ad-free, developed by one guy for fun, and turning it into a new way to get people to pay them money. Because they still can't get people to pay them for their news writing.

Ignorance is Bliss म्हणाले...

...has been acquired by The New York Times Company.”
The NYT reports.


If the New York Times is reporting it, it's probably fake news...

rhhardin म्हणाले...

SPINE because there are lots of rearrangements that are also words, e.g. penis.

RoseAnne म्हणाले...

Blogger tcrosse said...
There's a Wordle clone at Wordle Unlimited which, while it lasts, allows one to play as many times a day as one wishes.

That explains it - thanks for mentioning it. I didn't know there was another version. I just wasn't paying that much attention to what I clicked on.

rhhardin म्हणाले...

My "MOO" game implementation that went out on the sly in the operating system for a telephone switching statistics monitoring system had players from all levels enjoying it. An expert takes (for 4-letter words) 4 guesses (given number of correct letters and number of letters also in the correct position, cows and bulls respectively). A field guy reported one lady excited that she got it in 26 guesses. Truly a pasttime for everybody, which is what it was for. Imagine being working at a terminal all day typing in number assignments and having MOO at your fingertips as well.

Tank म्हणाले...

And over to the dark side we go.

Freeman Hunt म्हणाले...

They say they won't paywall it. I hope they don't!

Lincolntf म्हणाले...

I am so good at Wordle that I scare myself.

farmgirl म्हणाले...

Trust me, rh- MOO and fingertips are a way of life for me. But I’ve never heard of that word game.
I hope the NYTs doesn’t ruin this Wordle game for you all.

Old and slow म्हणाले...

I found an old text game (used to see it on BBS dial-in systems) called Dope Wars installed on embedded computers on the production line at a Motorola phone plant in Ireland back in the early 2000's.

Scot म्हणाले...

Hey, There's Wordle in German now!

https://www.knifemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_6918-768x330.jpg

Bob Boyd म्हणाले...

They'll probably change it because racist is a six letter word.

Bob Boyd म्हणाले...

I lost on "REMIE" I am amazed that everybody else knew that word.

Everybody else hasn't played yet. Thanks a lot, Tim.

Scot म्हणाले...

There is also Absurdle. It changes the target word based on the letters you submit. Is like trying to catch a hopped-up greased pig.

https://qntm.org/files/absurdle/absurdle.html

Jaq म्हणाले...

Remie was two weeks ago

curt म्हणाले...

Didn’t anyone else get bored with Wordle after guessing the word every time? I think the Times bought a short-lived fad.

Bob Boyd म्हणाले...

Oh good. Thanks.

tcrosse म्हणाले...

There's also a Wordle Archive for those who came late to the show.

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

"I lost on "REMIE" I am amazed that everybody else knew that word."

Are you sure you were playing the real Wordle and not the ripoff app? I think the real Worldle always has very solid standard words. One reason it's guessable is that you just pick the most obvious English word that fits the clues and it's surprisingly often right. Today, I got to the point where there were 3 common words that went with the letters I knew and I just got unlucky and picked the right one third. But I doub that "remie" was ever an answer in the real puzzle!

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

The Wordle guy seemed apologetic about allowing "tapir" to be an answer.

What's emanating from your penumbra म्हणाले...

My source tells me that this is exactly the type of anti-competitive behavior the New and Improved FTC and the DOJ Anti-Trust Division will take a close look at.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/19/cnbc-transcript-federal-trade-commission-chair-lina-khan-speaks-exclusively-with-andrew-ross-sorkin-and-kara-swisher-live-from-washington-dc-today.html

Static Ping म्हणाले...

So you are saying TRUMP is never going to be the solution.

Joe Smith म्हणाले...

'Hey, There's Wordle in German now!'

REICH

Marc in Eugene म्हणाले...

Remie isn't in the OED and I've never seen it-- hence it's not a real word. Pft.

Like most everyone else, I'll keep at Wordle it until it goes behind the paywall. I give the NYT their $4 a month but am not paying for the puzzles.

Narr म्हणाले...

I got it in 2 today--after giving up at 4 last Friday or Saturday . . .

Wilbur म्हणाले...

I use https://wordle-play.com/

You can play as much as you want and can choose 5,6 or 7 letter puzzles.

I, too, have been a subscriber to The Athletic since its inception. You may cancel your subscription - I did when hearing of the purchase - but you pay in advance annually so my subscription won't expire until August.

Narr म्हणाले...

What the hell is 'remie'? Or 'REMIE' if you insist.

ga6 म्हणाले...

Are five letters the limit on NYT employee's vocabulary?

wildswan म्हणाले...

Minesweeper
Wordle

However Netflix has got Seinfeld. So it's still possible to waste time, effectively.

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

Thank God "insurrection" isn't 5 letters.

Left Bank of the Charles म्हणाले...

Easy to cheat at Wordle bragging rights (I actually got it in 4):

Wordle 227 2/6

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Bunkypotatohead म्हणाले...

Mark Cuban became a billionaire selling something to Yahoo that doesn't even exist anymore.

Jaq म्हणाले...

"What the hell is 'remie'? Or 'REMIE' if you insist."

Sorry, it was 'ramie" but that was my question. Maybe I am playing the ripoff version. It's a word, it has to do with textiles. After that word, I lost my confidence that the word was guessable. Tapir would have been no problem.

Rollo म्हणाले...

There must be thousands of word game apps out there for people to waste time on. Is Wordle really better or more interesting?

I have game apps to unscramble words in languages I learned in school. I did not realize how little I actually knew of the languages. Eventually I was just trying random letter combinations over and over again, so there's something to be said for limiting the number of guesses.

Karen म्हणाले...

Good news! In his Twitter feed, Josh says the agreement he reached with the NYT is that Wordle be free going forward.

dbp म्हणाले...

Made it in 2, for real.

Wordle 227 2/6

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rehajm म्हणाले...

Karen said...
Good news! In his Twitter feed, Josh says the agreement he reached with the NYT is that Wordle be free going forward.


NYT will collect as much information about you via your phone/computer and share it with NYT allies in gov't, media and business.

'Free'...

Expect an obligation to agree to TOS before you can play...

D.D. Driver म्हणाले...

Wordle 227 3/6*

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Narr म्हणाले...

"Ramie"-- an Asian herbaceous shrub with useful fibers. Good to know.

Five letter word for 'insurrection': rebel.

Gerda Sprinchorn म्हणाले...

Wordle is so last week.

Narr म्हणाले...

Two!

ColoComment म्हणाले...

I got curious about the name.

A USPTO TESS simple search results in 8 entries: 6 for "Wordle" and 2 for "Wordles."
The earliest dates of filing were the "Wordles," filed in June and July (resp.), 1992 and each cancelled in 1999. The owner was Time Magazine.
The other [dead] ones date from 2002 (abandoned 2013), 2010 (abandoned 2010), and 2013 (abandoned 2014).

One of the remaining is for "Wordle Unlimited," and the last two [live] trademarks are the word mark, owned by "Monkey Labs Inc," and the design mark (logo), owned by NFT Technology Inc.

...more than anyone ever wanted to know, I'm sure. You should be able to see the search results page, here:

https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4806%3Amutey1.1.1&p_search=searchss&p_L=50&BackReference=&p_plural=yes&p_s_PARA1=&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA1%24LD&expr=PARA1+AND+PARA2&p_s_PARA2=Wordle&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA2%24COMB&p_op_ALL=AND&a_default=search&a_search=Submit+Query&a_search=Submit+Query