Wordle 324 3/6*
Easy
Wordle 324 4/6
There are two words again, I guess. I had FETUS, but a friend did it an hour earlier (around 6AM Central) and got SHINE. But both were labeled as being #324.
I had the same as you, and did it just after midnight EDT.
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fetus?? That has to be a troll job on ny times with what’s going on right now. I had shine.
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Fetus was the word that was selected a long time ago by the game’s creator. The NY Times changed it because of its recent sensitivity. But I guess not all of us saw that change come through.
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Oh, that’s really interesting. I had the changed word.
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this alternate word that was tossed out that some people got anyway amuses me too much. i’m sad i got the boring word.
i had the changed word. did the puzzle just after midnight
it’s not based on what time you do it. it’s based on whether you refreshed your browser. i don’t think i refreshed my browser, but it must have done it for me.
What does the * mean (some have it, some don’t) - 4/6* vs 4/6
i’m using “hard mode” it’s in the settings. something about being forced to use the information you already have in future guesses. i’m not entirely clear as to what that means, but i think i do that anyway, so i turned hard mode on to stop myself from doing something stupid.
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Wordle answer changed to avoid fraught word, NY Times says
By DAVID BAUDER Associated Press
May 9, 2022 — 1:45pm
Stefani Reynolds, AFP/Getty Images
This photo illustration shows a person playing online word game Wordle on a mobile phone on Jan. 11, 2022.
NEW YORK — The New York Times moved swiftly to change Monday’s answer to its daily Wordle puzzle out of fear that it would be seen as some sort of commentary on the debate over abortion rights.
The game, which became a sensation late last year and was bought by The Times in January, gives users six tries to guess a different five-letter word each day.
Yet The Times scrambled when it discovered that Monday’s word, which had been entered into Wordle’s computer program last year, was “fetus.”
The timing was particularly fraught given last week’s leaked report of a draft U.S. Supreme Court decision that would strike down a 50-year-old ruling governing the ability of women to receive abortions.
The appearance of “fetus” was “entirely unintentional and a coincidence,” the newspaper said in a message to readers on Monday.
“At New York Times Games, we take our role seriously as a place to entertain and escape, and we want Wordle to remain distinct from the news,” the message said.
The Times changed Monday’s answer to a different word, and a spokesman said that a “vast majority” of users saw that. But some people who had not refreshed their browsers saw “fetus” instead, spokesman Jordan Cohen said.
He would not say whether The Times had received any complaints about “fetus.”
Wordle was invented by Josh Wardle, a Brooklyn software engineer, as a gift for his partner and took off when he began posting it online. Players guess words and hone in on the correct answer as the game tells them if their guesses contain letters in the word of the day.
The Times bought his invention for more than $1 million and is revamping the technology to make sure every user is seeing the same word every day, the newspaper said. Cohen said millions of people play Wordle each day.
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