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The games department at the NYT is extremely lucrative. They get to charge extra for it and the customers love it enough to pay for it. My favorite job there is

The games department at the NYT is extremely lucrative. They get to charge extra for it and the customers love it enough to pay for it. My favorite job there is the person who "edits" Wordle. That's right. There's someone with the job of picking the right five letter word for the day. Now it's true that some words are harder than others, but the choice isn't that hard.

ghaff 4y ago
I assume the person who picks the word does a great deal more than that in the course of a day.
- fhgedhy 4y ago
  You’re both right. That person has currently picked words up to January 4th 4105.
- xhkkffbf 4y ago
  That seems like a fair assumption, but I can't imagine what that might be. The Wordle stack seems pretty static.
pests 4y ago
I didn't realize Wordle stopped using the preset answer list that was distributed with the source since its inception. Looking it up, appears to have changed last November.
davely 4y ago
Gizmodo has a piece awhile back lamenting this fact. You’re subjected to the whims of someone’s jokery. They example they have (if I recall) was that they couldn’t guess the word, only to find out that it was related to holiday XYZ that was in the next few days and it seemed so obvious and dumb -- because now instead of having to figure out a word based on missing letters, you now needed to take into account current events, time, etc. Of course, I can’t find the link at the moment… (so, maybe I’m making it up).
e63f67dd-065b 4y ago
Looking at https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/115015852367-Digital-Subscriptions https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/115015852367-Digi..., it doesn't seem like they charge extra to access the games? The all-access subscription gets you everything, and the news-only subscription gets you the news only. There's no "pay $x extra for games", only this https://www.nytimes.com/subscription/games#view-subscriptions https://www.nytimes.com/subscription/games#view-subscription... $40/yr. At $40/yr I would much rather get Apple Arcade, that's quite a shocking price for a subscription to a crappy indie studio.

ghaff 4y ago

I assume the person who picks the word does a great deal more than that in the course of a day.

fhgedhy 4y ago
You’re both right. That person has currently picked words up to January 4th 4105.
xhkkffbf 4y ago
That seems like a fair assumption, but I can't imagine what that might be. The Wordle stack seems pretty static.

pests 4y ago

I didn't realize Wordle stopped using the preset answer list that was distributed with the source since its inception. Looking it up, appears to have changed last November.

davely 4y ago

Gizmodo has a piece awhile back lamenting this fact. You’re subjected to the whims of someone’s jokery. They example they have (if I recall) was that they couldn’t guess the word, only to find out that it was related to holiday XYZ that was in the next few days and it seemed so obvious and dumb -- because now instead of having to figure out a word based on missing letters, you now needed to take into account current events, time, etc. Of course, I can’t find the link at the moment… (so, maybe I’m making it up).

e63f67dd-065b 4y ago

Looking at https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/115015852367-Digital-Subscriptions https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/115015852367-Digi..., it doesn't seem like they charge extra to access the games? The all-access subscription gets you everything, and the news-only subscription gets you the news only. There's no "pay $x extra for games", only this https://www.nytimes.com/subscription/games#view-subscriptions https://www.nytimes.com/subscription/games#view-subscription... $40/yr. At $40/yr I would much rather get Apple Arcade, that's quite a shocking price for a subscription to a crappy indie studio.