> so at least it's not casually accessible I'd argue that it's not. Puzzles in the newspapers also don't hide secrets, the answers are on the next page or upsi

> so at least it's not casually accessible I'd argue that it's not. Puzzles in the newspapers also don't hide secrets, the answers are on the next page or upside down. And for wordle, the vast majority of players don't even know the solutions can be found in the source (because they don't know what that means), and most of the ones who do know that don't look anyway because otherwise what's the point of playing. Having the solutions viewable client side may not be engineering elegance, but in this case I do think it is product elegance. Adding the DB or servers you mentioned would mean costs continue to increase with # of users, which would then create pressure to figure out how to make money off of wordle. Then comes logins, ads, or at the very least donation requests