Yes folks, good things don’t last forever, and this is just what has happened with Wordle . The play on words that is all the rage among tweeters and all holders of a B1 in English finally has a buyer. It is nothing more and nothing less than the New York Times , one of the great newspapers in the United States. The comics and puzzles page has been revamped and has a new center forward.
After dozens of suitors, Wordle already has a new owner
Josh Wardle, the creator of Wordle , had little idea of the buzz his minigame would cause when he released it in October 2021. He developed it for his word game-loving wife . What was going to be a personal project dedicated to a single person ended up having worldwide repercussions and a bill for the servers that we do not even want to imagine. Take notes those of you who are not romantic, you are losing business opportunities.
Wordle has since remained ad-free and turning down purchase offers left and right. This is why we were surprised by the news of your purchase. The NYT has paid a whopping $1 million for the game’s license. Its creator, Josh Wardle, who is very original when naming things, by the way, has announced that the game will continue to be free , although the NYT clarifies that it will only be “initially” .
What do I do now without my Wordle ?
Fortunately, the game mechanism is so simple that it is easy to clone (as the dozens of copies in different languages that have emerged well illustrate). All things considered, this is a list of 2,135 five-letter words . The most crafty have calculated that, with a daily game, it is enough to play while you drink coffee for 7 years . As long as you download the code, of course. We’ll give you some hints on how to do it a little later.
Why has the New York Times bought Wordle ?
The New York Times is one of the few global publications that has managed to maintain its position in the transition to digital publishing. To encourage subscriptions, the NYT offers its readers a compendium of online games . Some are free, but others, like the crossword puzzle , can only be accessed if you are a paying user. His sudoku puzzles , spelling bees and other mini-games attract millions of people every day. Wordle will join its free-to-play roster, and original creator John Wardle promises to work with the NYT to port the original hit record to the new platform .
How do I download Wordle ?
We can do what the pesky word-of-the-day spoiler Twitter bots did: download the source code . First, you need to download the Wordle page in HTML format into its own folder. Then we will download the manifest.json from the web, following this link: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/manifest.json
To finish the puzzle, we will also download the Javascript file that acts as the game engine, called main.e65ce0a5.js . With this, you will be able to play offline for a few years. However, it is most likely that you will not be able to save the history of the hit statistics as in the online game.