New York Times changed the wordlist, again #46
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Interesting. I guess from an 'importance' perspective having an editor is a good thing. NYT seems to think it's worthwhile to put resources available to the game. Practically that person would only be needed to review wordlists should the meaning of a word change due to cultural reasons. But then, they don't have to scramble to find the person to do the work... they have one on tap. Likely is one of many hats they wear. As for downloadable, yeah, who knows if they keep the current process, or change the game to have a 'live' word only. Again, from a resource perspective, it's cheaper for them to have all the computing occur on a remote device vs their hardware. Less back-and-forth too. But it depends on their motivation I guess. |
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Looks like the last day we were in sync was November
The column M100LE Ordinal is the Julian date of when the official Wordle word should have shown up, according to the word list M100LE is using (NYT Feb 22). Note that so far the words have mostly been picked from nearby, with the exceptions being BEGIN (the very first word), MEDAL (Veterans' Day), MAPLE (unclear, autumn?), and BRAVE (the day after a mass shooting at an LGBTQ dance club in Colorado). |
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Well, I just tried to grab the list using the old methods that worked when it wasn't a NYT product. No joy. |
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Well, shoot. I guess M100LE will have to forge its own path forward. Back to the original Josh Wardle list? Continue with the February 2022 NYT list? Something else? Why we might want something else: I think the biggest motivation for having an editor is that there were some offensive words that slipped by Josh Wardle, even though he had tried to remove them. For example, on that NYT article there was a comment from a person who had grown up being called various racist epithets and had felt it all come back when the answer to the Wordle recently was SPADE. (I'm not old enough to remember that as a slur, but I can see how you wouldn't want SPADE randomly thrust in front of you without any context, like gardening or playing cards.) If M100LE has its own word list, should we consider replacing words that the dictionary marks as offensive? I ran a quick script to check for them and there are no more coming up for this year, but there will be about one per year starting next year. Click to see potentially offensive words2021: (none) |
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(By the way today's M100LE is your special word! I can't believe NYT changed just in time to miss it.) |
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Good point. I'm ok with drifting away from both of those. Maybe we can substitute words related to this hobby (TANDY, DEBUG, etc) <- not checked to see if they exist already... re: debug word... heh, yeah, those bums! :) Speaking of debug, not sure that code is needed.. I'm working on improving Congrats/Sorry msg and am thinking this code is a fine example of spaghetti code - from the way I was evolving it. If removing sections (like debug) makes it easier, I'm ok with it. |
According to https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/07/crosswords/wordle-editor.html, the NYT Wordle Game now has a human editor. I do not quite understand why that was seen as necessary, but the upshot is their wordlist has diverged. I do not yet know if the new wordlist is downloadable. Here's an excerpt from the article:
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