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