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No ads, no pay to play, no upgrades, no sign in, no social graph, takes 2 minutes per day, everyone plays the same/one puzzle per day, unwritten rules you don't
by giarc 5y ago
No ads, no pay to play, no upgrades, no sign in, no social graph, takes 2 minutes per day, everyone plays the same/one puzzle per day, unwritten rules you don't ruin it for others, etc etc. The perks are great, I hope the NYT doesn't change it. I could take an ad, but changes to anything else might make me stop playing.
- eloisant 5y agoThe minute NYT starts to mess with it, clones are going to pop like mushrooms.
- cookie_monsta 5y agoUm... https://rwmpelstilzchen.gitlab.io/wordles/ https://rwmpelstilzchen.gitlab.io/wordles/
- rhizome 5y agoThey will absolutely change it.
- madiator 5y ago+1 on everything you said, except it takes me more than 2 minutes per day. :D
- giarc 5y agoMe too... was just showing off :)
- addandsubtract 5y agoVowels are now behind a paywall.
- jlkuester7 5y agoI'd like to buy a vowel..
- bryan_w 5y agoWell you can't. The best you can do is buy a license to use a vowel up to three times in the present game. Any subsequent value usage must be repurchased. No trading of vowels.
- rezonant 5y agoVowels on the Blockchain. Each user should be able to earn when they are done with the vowels they've purchased
- brewdad 5y agoThere will be one ad but it will be Punch the Monkey and it will hover over the keyboard until you go to type. It will then move to the row below the one you are guessing.
- ycombobreaker 5y agoPlus, the "share" mechanism is obviously not an invasion of privacy or a tracking beacon. It just puts a cute unicode game board in your clipboard, as far as I can see.
- phkahler 5y agoThanks, I didnt realize those shares were text and wondered how to export them. How cool!
- rtkwe 5y agoYeah they're just unicode emojis really simple to do and a big part of the popularity imo. From discord, twitter or whatsapp I can easily share and compare with a bunch of different groups of friends.
- ISL 5y agoOnce one sees that mechanism, it cannot be forgotten. Wide knowledge of the technique is among Wordle's gifts to the world.
- mywacaday 5y agoIf the NYT only adds a link to their home page on the share function it has been worth it for them, millions of impressions per day for almost 0 cost.
- xmprt 5y agoLooking through the rest of NYT games, I can see this becoming a pay to play thing pretty soon.
- scrame 5y ago> No ads, no pay to play, no upgrades, no sign in, no social graph yet.
- rglullis 5y ago> I could take an ad Why? There is objectively nothing that NYT could add to the game to make it more interesting. It can only make it worse.
- RC_ITR 5y ago
- peeters 5y ago> You can feel any way you want about NYT, but you’d argue that “multiple word length” options wouldn’t make the game better for some? Or hybridizing it with the crossword? Anything that takes away from everyone getting the same word on the same day will absolutely nuke its popularity. There's really nothing novel about the game to make it popular other than that. Don't get me wrong, it's fun and well implemented, but the concept existed before Wordle. What makes Wordle successful is how dirt-simple it is to share your results on any medium.
- RC_ITR 5y ago
- ragebol 5y agoI would never have found the game (and played it) without those results being shared. Anecdata, sure, and correlation != causation an all that, but I have to agree.
- ragebol 5y agoThere is/was a Dutch TV show called Lingo that is based on the same game and I'd expect there to be more such shows. Only variations the TV show has is the 6 word version on Saturday and some comedians made a sketch with a 19 letter version: words like "Marshallplanachtige" [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7CR1v1fKW0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7CR1v1fKW0 EDIT: of course there's also this classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7qxpAUKy4c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7qxpAUKy4c in which some dude tries to not say a word he probably saw in a porno but does have to say it of course so mispronounces.
- Pxtl 5y agoI'm expecting ads and also a hyperlink in the sharing copypasta at the very least.
- AdamJacobMuller 5y ago> takes 2 minutes per day I feel stupid.
- pheeque 5y agoNah, you can actually solve it really fast if you have a few goto starting words. I use house, trail and one more I can't remember now. Longest I ever spent since then on Wordle has been maybe 3 minutes.
- giarc 5y agoDharmesh Shah (hubspot founder) built a tool called FirstWord that ranks word choices. https://firstword.com/ https://firstword.com/
- crusty 5y agoThe NYTimes mobile app has a section at the very bottom of the scroll with 5(+1) games. The +1 is for the crossword puzzle, which is included in mini form whole the full chonker requires its own subscription. I image they are going to give wordle top billing in the section. Maybe there'll be a page anyone can visit, but I think they'll use it to keep subscribers returning to the app daily, having to scroll past something they'll want to read on their way, seeing some adds and giving them one more reason not to stop the renewal charges.
- id02009 5y agoThe question is: would anyone pay low seven figures just for the privilege of hiding the same thing? They'd expect this investment to return few times. They'd either start pushing "better" (different) version to subscribed people, splitting the community. Or, as you mentioned, introduce ads. But I don't think just acquiring a channel to display ads was the goal (the article mentions the goal to grow subscriber base), because it's a fad that will fade away- good chances are this will happen before they manage to show enough ads to recoup the initial investment.