Quirky News / 18 February 2022
Fans get wound up over Wordle
We don’t know about you, but Wordle is a hot topic of conversation with our buddies… Since the migration of the crazy-popular word game to The New York Times recently, there are claims it’s harder and that players are getting different puzzles. For its part, the Times claims “nothing has changed” about the way the game works and that it is “committed to continuing what makes the game great”. But one thing it has done is remove some obscure/rude words from the list “to keep the puzzle accessible to more people”. Yay…That includes removing the British/Aussie spelling of words like ‘fibre’, so American English it is. Boo… As for those who reckon Wordle has become more challenging, those claims have been debunked. It’s just a caulking coincidence, apparently…
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