The 'New York Times' Is Getting Roasted With Memes For Seemingly Making 'Wordle' Harder

NYT: No, we did not make Wordle harder. We promise. \n\nAlso NYT: Today\u2019s Wordle is KHYBX \u2014 which everyone knows is a popular 11th century Latin delicacy derived from quicksand extract. Duh.

— John Kapetaneas (@John Kapetaneas) 1644860936

i wonder if the ny times knows that if they keep making wordle this hard people are gonna stop playing

— queereotype \u263b (@queereotype \u263b) 1645014005

One of the joys of Wordle was that it was not too hard. It was a brief respite of feeling like things in the world were actually solvable.\n\nAnd the @nytimes had to come along and ruin it.\n\nDudes, it\u2019s not supposed to be like the NYT crossword. It\u2019s like Jumble, only shorter.

— Denise Dewald, MD \ud83d\uddfd (@Denise Dewald, MD \ud83d\uddfd) 1644888498

todays wordle was so hard i\u2019m suing the new york times for what they just put me thru

— sarah lugor! (@sarah lugor!) 1644875283

NYT Wordle list:pic.twitter.com/on6KHFHfVk

— Autry De Bluford (@Autry De Bluford) 1644970048

Original Wordle\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNYT Wordle

— Joel Wilson (@Joel Wilson) 1644948501

the NYT Wordle team every day:pic.twitter.com/opOSrSCltI

— lady of leisure (@lady of leisure) 1645029361

New York Times better stop choosing these hard af words, the reason wordle was so popular was because it was easy. It's not fun to clown on people bc they don't know what the word cynic is.pic.twitter.com/bcwhvWcAXa

— Anconoid (@Anconoid) 1644865250

For people saying Wordle has gotten harder since NYT bought it: The original developer coded the site so that the word of the day was pre-determined years in advance in the JS source. I looked (squinting to avoid spoilers), and NYT is still using the exact same order.

— Kevin Slane (@Kevin Slane) 1644858607

There's a January 20 tweet linked to in this article (no spoilers) w months' worth of past and future answers. Even though the guy tweeted it 25 days ago, you can see the last few weeks' worth of answers, in order. So yeah, NYT hasn't changed a thing.https://screenrant.com/wordle-source-code-hack-every-word-revealed/\u00a0\u2026

— Kevin Slane (@Kevin Slane) 1644859197

Could NYT change the order in the future? Definitely! I'd fully support it, tbh, because for a little while there was a bot that tweeted the next day's answer at anyone who posted their score. A spoiler-free experience for everyone would be ideal.

— Kevin Slane (@Kevin Slane) 1644859653

Here's a good writeup on the whole situation in @verge :https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2022/2/14/22933007/wordle-new-york-times-harder-words-debunk-guesses\u00a0\u2026

— Kevin Slane (@Kevin Slane) 1644871705