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If its static, you can just download it to your laptop and there isn't anything NYT could do to prevent you from playing it locally.

taurusnoises 5y ago
Wait. You can download this game?? And, would it still function as once a day?
- jbc1 5y ago
  Yes, the entire app is in the front end. It's not talking to a server to get new words of the day or checking answers. When you click the link and the game loads, it just loaded everything you needed to play it now, tomorrow, or some day in 2025.
- deleted 5y ago
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- GrifMD 5y ago
  You just need the index.html file and the main.[bundle_hash].js file. You can scrape out the Google Tag Manager import from index.html if you want, though I didn't check to see what tracking it was importing (probably basically analytics). But so long as you have those two files in a folder, you can open index.html and it'll work fine. My friends and I have been putting in joke words in a shared clone for each other and hosting it on GitHub Pages.
nybble41 5y ago
Or you can play this fully functional IPFS mirror: https://bafybeic4blel5vf4il73n3nzt6vw7npsov6or3cp3myjms4npiihxgjut4.ipfs.dweb.link/wordle/ https://bafybeic4blel5vf4il73n3nzt6vw7npsov6or3cp3myjms4npii... It's a static, client-side app with no server component, so it's not surprising that someone noticed that it works just as well if the same files are served from IPFS.
- bspammer 5y ago
  Sadly, the social component of wordle is a big part of it, and that URL looks like something the average person would be scared of giving them a virus.
  - nybble41 5y ago
    Not disagreeing with you about appearances, but in reality it's not any riskier than any other web site you might visit. Someone could create a friendlier URL via Cloudflare's public IPFS gateway and DNSLink[0], though that does introduce a potential point of failure (DNS). (Those with the IPFS Companion extension or the Brave browser would be redirected to their local IPFS node, so it would only be partly dependent on Cloudflare. However, someone has to pay for the domain.) [0] https://developers.cloudflare.com/distributed-web/ipfs-gateway/connecting-website#connecting-to-cloudflares-gateway https://developers.cloudflare.com/distributed-web/ipfs-gatew...

taurusnoises 5y ago

Wait. You can download this game?? And, would it still function as once a day?

jbc1 5y ago
Yes, the entire app is in the front end. It's not talking to a server to get new words of the day or checking answers. When you click the link and the game loads, it just loaded everything you needed to play it now, tomorrow, or some day in 2025.
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GrifMD 5y ago
You just need the index.html file and the main.[bundle_hash].js file. You can scrape out the Google Tag Manager import from index.html if you want, though I didn't check to see what tracking it was importing (probably basically analytics). But so long as you have those two files in a folder, you can open index.html and it'll work fine. My friends and I have been putting in joke words in a shared clone for each other and hosting it on GitHub Pages.

nybble41 5y ago

Or you can play this fully functional IPFS mirror: https://bafybeic4blel5vf4il73n3nzt6vw7npsov6or3cp3myjms4npiihxgjut4.ipfs.dweb.link/wordle/ https://bafybeic4blel5vf4il73n3nzt6vw7npsov6or3cp3myjms4npii... It's a static, client-side app with no server component, so it's not surprising that someone noticed that it works just as well if the same files are served from IPFS.

bspammer 5y ago
Sadly, the social component of wordle is a big part of it, and that URL looks like something the average person would be scared of giving them a virus.
- nybble41 5y ago
  Not disagreeing with you about appearances, but in reality it's not any riskier than any other web site you might visit. Someone could create a friendlier URL via Cloudflare's public IPFS gateway and DNSLink[0], though that does introduce a potential point of failure (DNS). (Those with the IPFS Companion extension or the Brave browser would be redirected to their local IPFS node, so it would only be partly dependent on Cloudflare. However, someone has to pay for the domain.) [0] https://developers.cloudflare.com/distributed-web/ipfs-gateway/connecting-website#connecting-to-cloudflares-gateway https://developers.cloudflare.com/distributed-web/ipfs-gatew...