How to fix your NY Times-based Wordle if it isn’t working
As a fairly enthusiastic — if not very expert — Wordle player, I wasn’t thrilled with the idea that The New York Times was adding the word game to its quiver. But I understood why the Times would want it, and why the game’s creator would want to not have to deal with its unexpected popularity. So I heaved a sigh, and prepared to continue to play on the new site.
The day came: I clicked on the familiar powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle URL and saw www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html in the address field. I mentally shrugged, and prepared for my morning battle with the English language.
And — nothing.
A blank screen. No 404 notice, no “your internet connection is loused up” message — and especially, no Wordle. Just a blank screen.
Frustrated, but unwilling to spend too much time trying to figure it out, I got rid of the tab and tried again. No luck.
Was Wordle somehow down? No — I was able to access it on my Pixel 6 phone, on an incognito browser, and on Safari (which I hardly ever use). And nobody else here at The Verge seemed to be complaining. So I put it down to a glitch, and played on my phone instead.
But for the next couple of days, the same thing kept happening. It was as though the fates — or maybe The Verge’s IT department — had decreed that I should not be playing word games on my work computer. But this computer was where my previous Wordle statistics, as pitiful as they were, were kept. I was in despair.
Until I finally rose from my despondency, took a deep breath, and started searching for a solution. And finally found it in Reddit.
It turned out I wasn’t the only one. There were others who were finding that they suddenly could not access their morning Wordle fix. The problem?
They were New York Times
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