The New York Times has requested that I shut the archive down

Re:The New York Times has requested that I shut the archive ... by e12e on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:36AM (#31026776)

> 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://bafybeic4blel5vf4il73n3nzt6vw7npsov6or3cp3myjms4npii...

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Re:The New York Times has requested that I shut the archive ... by NoahKAndrews on Thursday April 14, 2022 @07:22PM (#31034757)

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

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Re:The New York Times has requested that I shut the archive ... by e12e on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:42PM (#31035785)

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.

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Re:The New York Times has requested that I shut the archive ... by tedmiston on Friday April 15, 2022 @03:49PM (#31044948)

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-tw...

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