Among so many novelties that January left us, one of the most impressive was the purchase of wordle by New York Times. Neither slow nor lazy, from the renowned American newspaper they decided to get their hands on the game that is a sensation on the web, and the news has not gone unnoticed.
But beyond the memes and jokes about how the new owners could ruin wordle, a real concern of users has also been expressed in relation to the fate of the popular proposal. Fortunately, there is a simple method that will allow you to continue enjoying the original experience of wordle free and offlineand no matter if New York Times impose changes to the game or apply a paywall.
The data began to circulate on Twitter through Aaron Rike (via TheVerge). As the aforementioned explains, any person you can download the full game on your computer, for the simple fact that its operation resides in the browser. So if you enter wordle from your browser preferred, right click and choose “Save as…”you will forever have a copy of the proposal that has fanaticized users all over the world.
“wordle is a small game that runs completely in the browser. The daily words are there in the code, in a giant list; there are thousands of them. Therefore, you can save a copy of the website right now, disconnect your computer from the internet, and play wordle every day for years,” he explained.
The wordle original will survive, even if New York Times ruin the game
Without a doubt, we are facing a guy as simple as effective. Even Rieke mentions that it is possible to access wordle from copies stored on platforms such as the Internet Archive. But that is not all since, apparently, using different mirrors of the website does not affect the word users must guess that day. And that’s not all, because the downloaded version still allows you to share the result on social networks at the end of the attempts.
Rieke’s “trick” works perfectly on a computer, although the experience may not be the same on a mobile device. When we try to download the web page of wordle from an Android smartphone we found that it did not reproduce it faithfully when opened. Maybe it depends on each device, it’s a matter of trying.
For now, it is a good option to consider if you believe that wordle it will no longer be the same when it passes into the hands of New York Times; or if they are simply looking to create a new streak without relying on an internet connection.