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If you’re one of the manyWordlefans who have run into some difficulty solving the daily puzzle recently, rest assured that the game hasn’t actually gotten harder.
“It’s not just me, right? like wordle is actively harder now?” asked one fan on Twitter, as anotherquipped, “either wordle is getting harder or i’m just getting progressively worse at it everyday.”
ComedianTrevor Noaheven got in on the action,writing, “it really feels like Wordle isn’t fun since the New York Times took over.”
Other fans pointed out that even before theTimescame along, the gamehasn’t always been easy.
“People are saying Wordle is gettingharder like they didn’t throw an absolute tantrum over the word knoll,” mused one Twitter user.
However, according to theTimes, nothing about the game has actually gotten more challenging.
In fact, they’ve actually removed a few obscure words “in an effort to make the puzzle more accessible.”
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“As an example, weremoved “AGORA” this week,” Cohen wrote—a nod to a change that had some Wordle fans chatting this week, when the daily puzzle yielded two different solutions based on if players were accessing the new or old version of the game. (Now, even if your browser tries to access the old website, it will automatically redirect to theTimes' website.)
“We will continue to review the solutions, and remove obscure or potentially insensitive words,” Cohen adds.
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“I wanted to come up with a game that she would enjoy,” Wardle, whose game title is a play on his last name, told theTimesin January.
As for how many words are in the mix, during the same interview, the software engineer said that out of all of the different options in the English language — about 12,000 in all — the pair selected only 2,500.
“I think people kind of appreciate that there’s this thing online that’s just fun,” Wardle told theTimes. “It’s not trying to do anything shady with your data or your eyeballs. It’s just a game that’s fun.”
source: people.com
