What the Hell, Wordle?!
Now you’re giving different words to different people?
Wordle: the word game where everyone in the world gets to play the exact same round of the exact same game as everyone else, then compare notes. Except, that is, when the makers randomly decide to switch it up for no reason.
Recently, my partner and I played the game simultaneously but had different words. Basically, New York Times has completely ruined what makes the game so appealing. Which makes them the worst company on earth.
Am I overacting? I don’t think so, and I’m happy to rant about why.
The game was created and originally run by just one guy — Josh Wardle — in a remarkably efficient way, and in the name of love. Despite its intended target audience consisting only of his girlfriend, it quickly proved so popular that NYT wanted to throw a stack of cash at him, so they could do what all good multinational corporations do: suck the fun right out of it.
Firstly, there was that week where the world thought they’d deliberately made the algorithm more high-brow, because the answers were consistently so obscure it couldn’t be a coincidence (though I’m not sure high-brow is the right term — any self respecting pirate who has waterproofed their hull knows what “caulk” means).
