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The new Wordle has a shorter word list (down from about 12k to about 10k valid guess words). EDIT: both lists are about the same length (12k); a small number o
by tibbar 5y ago
The new Wordle has a shorter word list (down from about 12k to about 10k valid guess words).
EDIT: both lists are about the same length (12k); a small number of words were removed.
- bencollier49 5y agoWhy?
- dspillett 5y agoWe can only guess, but perhaps they've applied some sort of commonality filter and dropped words that are rarely used? Or perhaps they've simply moved more words from the guess list into the challenge list? (the challenge list was produced from what words one person immediately recognised, after all) Or, most likely IMO, they were not 100% certain they could legally use the existing word list (now, or for what they plan for the future) or were certain they couldn't without paying for some sort of license, so they produced a new list from scratch from a source they have licensed for their other word games.
- bee_rider 5y agoThere are two lists: guesses you are allowed to make, and possible solutions from the puzzle. From the solutions list they removed some words that had different British and American spellings, as well as some words with negative associations, like "slave." From the possible guesses list, the words removed appeared to mostly be quite offensive slurs.
- bencollier49 5y agoAh, good. The Americanisms did my nut in. 5 thumbs up.
- bee_rider 5y ago* Americanizmz
- avalys 5y agoWhat's an example of a word that was removed? Any pattern there?
- sbierwagen 5y agohttps://boingboing.net/2022/02/11/pussy-pupal-and-agora-among-words-removed-from-wordle-after-move-to-new-york-times.html https://boingboing.net/2022/02/11/pussy-pupal-and-agora-amon... "Lynch", "slave", a series of racial slurs, etc.
- Rebelgecko 5y agoThe day they moved to the NYT they removed words that could refer to the female anatomy (like "pussy"), as well as words referring to certain unpleasant concepts (e.g. slavery). They retained words referring to male genitalia (like "boner"). Make of that what you will.
- danachow 5y agoThey notably did not remove CUNTS.
- Buldak 5y agoI suppose they're both vulgar, but one difference is that "pussy" has a derogatory use that "boner" doesn't have.
- nicoburns 5y agoPerhaps, but it also has an entirely innocent use that boner doesn’t. At least here in the UK it’s pretty common to use “pussy” to refer to a cat.
- frosted-flakes 5y agoPussy and boner both have innocent uses. A pussy is a cat, a boner is a silly mistake.
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- shadowfacts 5y agoIt is shorter, but only by 19 removed words and 6 removed answers. Compare for yourself: https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/main.bd4cb59c.js https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/main.bd4cb59c.js https://web.archive.org/web/20220210034340id_/https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/main.e65ce0a5.js https://web.archive.org/web/20220210034340id_/https://www.po...
- tibbar 5y agoOh, hmm. Perhaps the list has been changed multiple times? It was originally 12972 words (see https://www.poirrier.ca/notes/wordle-optimal/ https://www.poirrier.ca/notes/wordle-optimal/) and was 10638 words as of yesterday. Anyway, some of the words that have been removed are slurs/profanity.
- ThatPlayer 5y agoI believe you're mixing it up. There are two arrays of words in the source code. One that contains all the solutions in order, and one that contains all the possible words without repeating any words in the solutions list So the 10638 words are the set of all possible guesses minus the set of all the solutions.
- tibbar 5y agoOh… I think you’re right. Thanks.
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- ThatPlayer 5y agoThe one you linked also describes the old word lists similarly: https://www.poirrier.ca/notes/wordle/#variant-cheat-mode https://www.poirrier.ca/notes/wordle/#variant-cheat-mode
- jessikat 5y ago
- phreack 5y agoDo you know of any rehosts of the old Wordle code?
- conservatory 5y agohttps://dazzlepod.com/wordle/ https://dazzlepod.com/wordle/
- JonathanBuchh 5y agoI made a copy the day The New York Times bought Wordle: https://buchh.fun/wordle https://buchh.fun/wordle Thanks to Josh for making Wordle with a free license.
- Secretss 5y agoHmm. The #241 word was changed between original and NYT, and I just played your copy and it was using the NYT word instead of Josh's. I don't want to spoil the 2 words here so here's a link to Mashable that covers the two different words to the same puzzle number. https://mashable.com/article/wordle-241-glitch-answer https://mashable.com/article/wordle-241-glitch-answer I checked the other commenter's rehost and it also used NYT's word. So does this mean all supposed "rehosts" don't and can't work if the word list still defaults to NYT's?
- Secretss 5y agoNevermind, the Mashable article misreported what happened. NYT didn't replace Agora with Aroma, they removed Agora and Aroma was simply the next one in line. My apologies, your rehost is fine. Original: #241 agora, #242 aroma, #243 caulk, #244 shake NYT list: #241 aroma, #242 caulk, #243 shake, #244 <not out yet> Because I got Aroma instead of Agora on your rehost and didn't check the puzzle number, and because I took Mashable's word that Aroma was a replacement for Agora, I mistakenly thought your rehost was using NYT's word list.
- wch 5y agoDid the original Wordle have a free license? I don't recall seeing license information anywhere.
- culi 5y agoI think you're technically correct originally. They only removed less than two dozen from the ACTUAL word list but they did in fact remove ~2k from the list of possible words you can enter in (which is the list most players interact with)