New York Times is not wasting any time to cash in on the Wordle fad. After announcing the high profile purchase of the game, NYTimes is assuming the hosting of the game in its own site now, as expected.
As reported, NYTimes is also finessing the word choice which is hardly surprising. Afterall it's prudent to screen offensive or inappropriate words (like pussy, or whore) to make the game more family- or kids-friendly.
It's almost certain that the words library will be expanded more substantially. The words in the original games are really a bit too easy (and not that challenging). It's satisfying, no doubt, but it's a good thing that NYTimes wants to keep the game on a more intellectually challenging level, rather than lowing the bar, just to make players feel good.
I thus can't believe it when I read how so many people are complaining about NYTimes making it too hard, with words like, cynic, or caulk. I mean, c'mon, who are these whiny babies? Do these whiners even make it pass middle school? Such sore losers.
In any case, here it is, my first game on the redirected NYTimes site:
Wordle 242 5/6
As usual, my first two attempts are just the controls (with the same two words I always use, in screening out all the vowels). Real guess starts from third attempt.
I'm wondering out loud if the puzzle master of NYTimes is going to make it more tiered, ie. different levels to cater for different users. So, Beginners could stay with the five-letter words in six attempts. Intermediate could have maybe six-letter words in five attempts, and Experts could play seven-letter words in four attempts, and so on. The sharing aspect will stay, but it'll notate not just the same game # for all users, but different levels. But, it wouldn't be wise to make the tier'ing too complicated. The beauty of Wordle is to keep it simple.
Afterall, even Sudoku does that. And it's another game that I like.
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