Rest in Peace Game of the Year 2022
It's an easy version of the final round of Wheel of Fortune
Damn I just realized you're exactly right. And Wheel of Fortune is just Hangman with a cash prize... Which means Wordle is just an easier version of Hangman with a very slick minimalist interface that makes people feel smart while playing a children's puzzle.
Do people really think it makes them smart doing the puzzle?
I just thought it was a cute/fun daily puzzle?
Ooh this makes so much more sense. I finally understand wtf a wordlre is.
the only place i heard about it was from annoying people on twitter so i naturally resisted learning this information
A simpler version of the good old textTwist - https://youtu.be/mbA2xK_WQGs
Bruh you can make your own in python in 10 minutes max.
Shit. I'm gonna do it. Give me a secondm
# Requires python module 'nltk', run these two lines in a terminal ## python3 -m pip install nltk ## python3 -c "import nltk; nltk.download('words')" from nltk.corpus import words word_list = words.words() flws=[] for i in word_list: if len(i)==5: flws.append(i.lower()) import random def wordle(): print('Start guessing') cw=random.choice(flws) t=0 while t<6: e=input() if e in flws: if cw==e: print('√√√√√\nYou won!') break else: out='' for l in range(len(e)): if e[l] in cw: if e[l]==cw[l]: out+='√' else: out+='~' else: out+='x' print(out) t+=1 else: print('Word not in dictionary') if t<6: print('GG, again? Y/N') else: print('Correct answer was "'+cw+'", wanna play again? Y/N') ans=input() if ans in ['Y','y']: return(wordle()) else: return('Bye') wordle()But literally anyone and their grandma can make their own version, this is like paying a lot of money to the person who invented tic-tac-toe
The real reason it's popular is because it's a shared experience, everyone is doing the same puzzle - like the NYT Crossword.
That combined with the emoji sharing helped it become viral, you aren't just doing a word game - you're doing today's specific Wordle puzzle and sharing your results (without spoilers because of the emojis) with your friends/family.
Does it have copyright and shit? Cuz if its not a trademark or whatever and anyone can use "wordle" as name, then, again, they are fucked.
That's not really true tbh, if someone created an online word game called "Wordle" and was under the jurisdiction of the US courts, it would probably be enforced without registering the trademark and all the paperwork
For the lexicon, just extract all 6 letters words from all the leftist theory online.
I tried reading the article but I got the paywall, then it caused my browser to crash :liberalism:
Open the page then stop the page from loading. It works every time
Wow, right as the trend was dying.
Good fucking move by the creators of Wordle. Bad news for people who enjoy playing Wordle in the future.
Fun fact: The creator of Wordle is a :reddit-logo: admin. His username is powerlanguage.
I can’t wait until the next words are
Russia Military Movement Ukraine
No way, the game everyone has been marketing for free for like a month got bought up?
Maybe now slightly less people will spam this shit lmao.
This shit should be easy enough to clone and host on a Russian server let’s go nerds
i already had downloaded an app for it a few days into playing cuz i wanted practice and more than one game a day,
lol I remember when I first heard about this and the phrase "the author has resisted attempts to monetize it" was uttered
Watch this thing get bloated up. As someone who was using the internet in early 00s, you know why google got big? IMO because the home page was minimal, simple, and fast to load. I don't remember the actual search results being much better. But AOL, Lycos, Altavista... they all loaded up their sites with bullshit that just assaulted your eyeballs.
People like stuff that's simple and just works. They don't like barriers to access. NYT will ruin this like how capitalists ruin everything: monetization makes things worse a lot of the time and ignores the fundamental reasons why people like things.
I used to use ICQ. I'm old.
Many years ago, after many years of not using it, I tried it again just for curiosity's sake and it was a bloated horrible mess of malware and obnoxious ads.
NYT will ruin this like how capitalists ruin everything
Wordle was designed to be ruined. It was a gimmicky game that got a ton of press for no discernible reason. The endless hype was predicated on the app being sold for some comically obscene figure. Now that its got people on the bandwagon for at least the next few months, time to monetize the fuck out of it before people realize they're just playing a very shitty crossword puzzle.
