Yes, friends, good things don’t last forever, and this is just what has happened with wordle. The word game 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 of 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 wordlehe did not imagine the expectation that his minigame would cause when he launched it in October 2021. And it is that he developed it for his wife, lover of puns. What was going to be a personal project dedicated to one person ended up having global impact and an invoice 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 remained ever sinces no ads and rejecting purchase offers right and left. This is why we were surprised by the news of your purchase. The NYT has paid a whopping amount of one million dollars for the game license. Its creator, Josh Wardle —who is very original in naming things, by the way—, has announced that the game will remain freealthough the NYT clarify what it will be only “initially”.
What do I do now without me wordle?
Fortunately, the game mechanism is so simple that it is easy to clone (as well illustrated by the dozens of copies in different languages that have emerged). After all, it 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 have your 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.
Because the New York Times has bought wordle?
The New York Times it 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 online games compendium. Some are free, but others, like the crossword, they can only be accessed if you are a paying user. Their sudoku, spelling bees and other minigames attract millions of people every day. wordle will join its list of free games, and the original creator, John Wardle, promises to work with the NYT for carry over the original hit history to the new platform.
How do I download the wordle?
We can do what the annoying Twitter bots did that spoiled the word of the day: download the source code. First, you must download page wordle in HTML format inside 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.
