wordle
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Wordle Is Watching You
It’s been less than a month since the New York Times bought Wordle, but it’s wasting no time in ruining everyone’s favourite word game in all the shitty ways you’d expect from a billion-dollar conglomerate. And — you guessed it — that means your little daily puzzles are being loaded with ad trackers now, too.
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Everyone’s Convinced The NYT Made Wordle Harder, But It’s Exactly The Same
Following Wordle’s dream-like purchase for over a million bucks, people have assumed new owners the New York Times would inevitably make changes for the worse. I mean, of course it would. It’s a big billion-dollar corporation buying a tiny morsel of joy. That always ends in sadness, right? And knowing those bastards, they’ll have made…
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The New York Times Rushes To Fix Broken Wordle Streaks
You may know The New York Times for its reputation as the paper of record and the paper of recommending-you-put-peas-in-guac. But now the Grey Lady has joined the likes of EA, Bungie, 343 Industries, and other developers of live-service games as it rapidly tries to extinguish fires for its newly acquired puzzle game, Wordle.
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Wordle’s ‘Best’ Starting Word Has Been Found, And Ruined, By Maths
One of the cutest things about Wordle, and also one of the most important if you value having any kind of success with the game, is the selection of your starting word. For most players this has probably been their own favourite combination of vowels and consonants, but if you really want to get things…