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So long Wordle—Knotwords is my new daily word game obsession

Enlarge / A word game that’s as addictive as a “DRUG. ” The viral success of Wordle has reminded the world of how compelling the good word game can be (even if that game is not exactly new ). But if you’re anything like me, the every day Wordle grind has probably started to feel […]

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New York Times takes down third-party Wordle Archive

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) Wordle Archive—a website that let users play through hundreds of previous daily five-letter Wordle puzzles—has been taken down at the request of Wordle owner The New York Times. The archival site, which offered a backward-looking play feature that’s not available in the NYT’s official version of Wordle, had […]

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Wordle is the word: Why Ars is hooked on a free, accessible web game

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) My favorite gaming discovery from the end of 2021 is probably Wordle—even though I had to decipher a cryptic social media puzzle to figure out what this popular new game actually was. As 2021 came to a close and I bundled up beneath blankets due to an apparent omicron infection, I […]