As Wordle was purchased by The New York Times for an undisclosed sum, a procedure was discovered to play offline for years to come, while continuing to share daily results as usual.
Since Wordle's launch in November XNUMX, which was to be used by Josh Wardle as a way to keep in touch with his associate, it has grown to over XNUMX users playing a day. Sharing your score on Twitter was a big part of that, since you're unlikely to log into the social site and not see a tweet with green and white dots.
But certain users were concerned about how his winning streak would play out, when the New York Times takeover was over. Previously, certain games moved behind a paywall, requiring you to register. But while Wardle mentioned in a tweet that he is working on backing up his archive material, users have already found other ways if the dreaded scenario unfolds.
However, with countless copycats appearing on the App Store, but continuing to appear on the Play Store, there is a danger that we could see an influx of these when the sale concludes.
A time capsule from January 2022
Over the years, other games have taken off, like Wordle. Occasionally, they gradually disappeared or were bought by another company.
Flappy Bird was one of those games in XNUMX before the developer pulled it from the Apple App Store and Google Play Stores. There was also Temple Run in XNUMX, where there were leaderboards among my friends and family about how far we could run.
But Wordle has a user base that wants to sustain the daily grind of solving a word and then sharing it with friends and family. Users have found that saving the page in a web browser also saves future words for many years.
Wordle is a small game that runs entirely in the browser. The routine words are there, in the code, in a giant list. There are thousands of them. Do you remember those? 1/x pic.twitter.com/ivca5o8tUVFebruary 1, 2022
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Starting this in Safari on my (XNUMX) XNUMX-inch MacBook Pro loaded Wordle with no problem. I turned off the Wi-Fi, in case the flies tried to get to the place, but of course, the last word was ready to be resolved.
The only drawback is that my burst is reinstated, but that's a small cost to pay for the changes that are coming to Wordle soon.
I expect a dedicated app to appear on most platforms from App Store to Nintendo Switch in time. The New York Times wishes the game was free on more platforms than the website. But as long as you can share these green and yellow marbles on social media, users may not have a problem.
At the moment, Wordle remains exactly the same as it was in December, but if you want to move to your PC or Mac to anticipate the changes that may come to the game in the coming months, it would not be that. .a bad shot.