The times of precariously storing your Wordle historical past in your browser’s cache are over: You now want a free New York Instances account to see your stats.
I do know this as a result of I’m one of many holdouts who by no means linked their Wordle file to an account. Because the begin, my Wordle historical past has been tied to the Chrome profile I exploit for work. (Please do not make me clarify why it is my work profile.)
Nonetheless, after I completed at present’s Wordle—the 1,000th Wordle puzzle—the bar graph of my guess distribution that I have been seeing for years was absent. Instead was an invite to see my stats by making a free New York Instances account. NYT bought Wordle from creator Josh Wardle in 2022. (Sure, the Wordle man is called Wardle.)
In a 2022 GDC discuss, Wardle attributed Wordle’s success partially to gamers sharing outcomes on social media, and stated that he did not truly invent the concept: he turned the emoji block recaps into an automatic characteristic after he noticed a participant doing it manually. That sharability, together with it being free and requiring no account creation, led to Wordle’s viral unfold. (Enjoyable reality: The primary place it blew up was New Zealand.)
Wordle can nonetheless be performed with out an account, however if you’d like a readout of your stats, making a New York Instances account is now necessary—I could not discover a means round it, and different gamers on social media are reporting the identical factor.
The New York Instances is maybe getting extra critical about changing Wordle’s enduring reputation into earnings—the paper just lately focused practically 2,000 Wordle-like video games with DMCA notices.