How to Play Wordle, the Word-Guessing Game of 2022

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I’m both sad and happy about this. It’s been a fun few weeks now, but I’m happy the developer is getting paid well, sad for the inevitable addition to only the puzzle page subscription availability. Maybe they’ll finally get me to pay.

Also, the NYTimes will have the ability to take down the rip-off apps that keep popping up. I think Apple took them off the iOS App Store, but I understand there are still many on the Google Play Store.

I wonder if they’ll put it in the iOS Crossword app now, like the Spelling Bee puzzle?

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Also, there is this:

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Federico Viticci has made a free Shortcut that lets you save an offline copy of Wordle to play forever.

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To save someone else time, I just checked the article and the shortcut works on iOS and iPadOS 15.4 beta only. There is some sort of bug in 15.3 that prevents it from working right.

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From xkcd

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The NY Times finally got the Wordle game to work on Safari! It was an annoyance to have to switch to Chrome just to play it…

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??? Never played Wordle on anything else than Safari.

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Turns out Bill Gates is a Wordle fan too.

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