Popular online word game Wordle is now owned by The New York Times and has moved to its website. What does that mean for the puzzle game's players?
Originally, Wordle was hosted on the powerlanguage.co.uk web address. Wardle got the name, he told
, after someone called him and friends out for using foul language, but they misheard it as"power language." . After the initial problem with players not seeing their stats when they played the game, The Times encouraged players to use the original Wordle URL and let the game redirect them to the new Times-housed page.
Morning, Wordlers! To preserve your streaks, please open the old URL last used to play Wordle. This will automatically redirect to the NYT Wordle page, carrying your streaks with you.If you are a recent convert to Wordle, there's now a way to go back and play earlier puzzles, thanks toof past puzzles.
Wordle refreshes its puzzle daily, so if you miss one, previously you were out of luck. Thakkar said on he "like a lot of people on this website, love my daily Wordles. But if you forget to do one, there is no way to go back to it. So I decided to make one." Here it is, the Wordle Archive - Remembrance of Wordles Past. This is the culmination of a very busy weekend built on a lot of work by other awesome people (
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