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(Pocket-lint) Wordle’s popularity seems to have continued since the big change in its purchase by The New York Times, especially since the newspaper’s team managed to solve some teething issues while moving people’s stats to its new URL.
After claiming upon purchase that it wouldn’t change the game, The Times just made an interesting tweak, removing a series of rude words from the list of accepted guesses, and assuming solutions accepted by the game.
This means that five-letter words like “whore” or “sluts” are no longer valid – but, oddly enough, words including “fucking” and “shit” are still tolerated. The gap is not clearly explained at this point, but it appears that the coarse options that are still available may not last long.
According to a New York Times spokesperson speaking to Eurogamer, “Abusive words will still be removed. Since we’ve just started moving from Wordle to the Times site, we’re still in the process of removing those words from the game.”
This isn’t new in the New York Times’ pun section, and it’s somewhat chaste, but it might offend some who were hoping it didn’t quite touch the Wordle. However, it’s not a crippling change and we don’t know how many people guessed the words in the first place.
Written by Max Freeman Mills.
