Is the NY Times trying to kill Wordle?

[mnhtnbb]

No love today for Valentine's Day

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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/feb/14/is-wordle-getting-harder-viral-game-tests-players-after-new-york-times-takeover

[EYESORE 9001]

1. I got lucky

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[underpants]

4. I did too. I thought it was spelled differently

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[mnhtnbb]

10. Yes, you did!

[marigold20]

2. 5 today

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I tried 3 of my usual first attempts - nothing!

[MichaelSoE]

3. Are they?

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[mucifer]

5. It took me a while. I had to step away. I didn't think I'd get it

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I never had 0 letters from my first try. This was a hard one.

[mnhtnbb]

8. I was really stumped this morning.

[AngryOldDem]

6. Good question.

I know it’s been taking me longer to solve them.

What will kill Wordle is if they put it behind a paywall, which they said they wouldn’t do, and I hope they won’t.

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[mnhtnbb]

9. This is the second one I've almost given up on

since the NY Times takeover.

I get the Sunday NY Times, so I have on-line access, but there are other things to do than sit there stumped over a word. I could read a book!

[mucifer]

11. I kinda like the hard ones. I leave and come back. I still believe there is a

certain amount of luck

[AngryOldDem]

12. I lost patience with a Wordle 2.

Those things can be tough.

I play a lot of timed word games, and I’m having to remind myself that’s not a factor here. I see it as building patience, and an exercise in logic.

I write out the alphabet and use process of elimination with each guess, then I play with letter combos that make sense. May not be the quickest way, but it often works for me.

[madaboutharry]

7. Agree, very clueless choice for Valentines Day.

I was disappointed.

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[seaglass]

13. This is the first 5/6 I got

Yikes. It took a long time to get the correct placement of those first two letters

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[Marthe48]

14. I've played 34 Wordle games

I haven't seen a connection between the Wordle bubble and real life. Not so far.

Several words lately have been harder to track down. Maybe NYT is upping the game?