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Re:The New York Times buys Wordle by callahad on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @03:44AM (#30160064)
For context, a Twitter bot was recently banned for automatically replying to Wordle tweets and spoiling the next day's word. Preventing that would improve the gameplay experience by defending against malicious disruption.
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Re:The New York Times buys Wordle by yardstick on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:01AM (#30160179)
Not really. The bot can get its data from when NZ hits midnight, hours and hours before America and Europe etc. Even if it was always released at the exact same time globally, nothing to stop a bot solving it / fetching it immediately and replying to users posts from yesterday about what todays one is.
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Re:The New York Times buys Wordle by bspammer on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @03:56AM (#30160142)
We know that wordle is completely trivial for computers to solve. Hiding the solutions won’t do anything to stop that particular behavior.

The game is perfect as is, and I’m sad that it will now be used to make money.

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