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> Out of curiosity I had a look at the Wordle on the NYT site, and it's still the same script. Really? I had a feeling the game/wordlist changed somewhat after

by e12e 5y ago

> Out of curiosity I had a look at the Wordle on the NYT site, and it's still the same script. Really? I had a feeling the game/wordlist changed somewhat after the move to nyt - I guessed they'd put some crossword cryptist on it... But I suppose I was wrong. Ed: AFAIK the js uses the client side date to pick a word - and today nyt and the ipfs mirror posted here does not share the same solution: https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html https://bafybeic4blel5vf4il73n3nzt6vw7npsov6or3cp3myjms4npiihxgjut4.ipfs.dweb.link/wordle/ https://bafybeic4blel5vf4il73n3nzt6vw7npsov6or3cp3myjms4npii...

NoahKAndrews 5y ago
The wordlist did change. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/02/heres-how-the-new-york-times-changed-wordle/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/02/heres-how-the-new-yor...
- e12e 5y ago
  Thank you. But that still indicates I was wrong - the possible solutions appear to be essentially the same - even if particularly different. I was surprised to see "slave" as an illegal guess. But it would appear that the difference in previous solution: stairs vs royal(I think ?) might just be slightly different word lists for the solutions... I thought there was much more of an edit.
  - tedmiston 5y ago
    They changed some obscure and offensive words initially, but there have been recent news articles around days where people had 2 different solutions to the same puzzle. Initially I suspected that this was NYT watching for how unusually difficult words play out and then changing the answer on the fly to be a simpler word. But I think in reality these were the same changes they made shortly after the acquisition and somehow people have the old JS file cached locally. https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/31/why-wordle-game-284-had-two-answers-and-how-to-fix/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/31/why-wordle-game-284-had-tw...

by e12e 5y ago

NoahKAndrews 5y ago

The wordlist did change. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/02/heres-how-the-new-york-times-changed-wordle/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/02/heres-how-the-new-yor...

e12e 5y ago
Thank you. But that still indicates I was wrong - the possible solutions appear to be essentially the same - even if particularly different. I was surprised to see "slave" as an illegal guess. But it would appear that the difference in previous solution: stairs vs royal(I think ?) might just be slightly different word lists for the solutions... I thought there was much more of an edit.
- tedmiston 5y ago
  They changed some obscure and offensive words initially, but there have been recent news articles around days where people had 2 different solutions to the same puzzle. Initially I suspected that this was NYT watching for how unusually difficult words play out and then changing the answer on the fly to be a simpler word. But I think in reality these were the same changes they made shortly after the acquisition and somehow people have the old JS file cached locally. https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/31/why-wordle-game-284-had-two-answers-and-how-to-fix/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/31/why-wordle-game-284-had-tw...