Some Wordle players lost streaks or stats when it moved to the NYT
rockpapershotgun.comThe smash-hit daily word puzzle Wordle has moved over to the website of the New York Times, who recently bought it for seven figures, and the transition has been a bit bumpy. While the NYT version is supposed to import stats from the original site, some players have been unlucky. The NYT say they're working to fix it. Their version is mostly the same but players have noticed a few changes, supposedly including a few words being removed.
The NYT's Wordle FAQ said they have automatically transferred statistics, including streaks, from the old site to their own. They did warn that stats are stored locally in your browser, so you should use the same device and browser if they didn't look right. But there is an actual technical problem beyond that.
At 9:25pm on Thursday, the NYT's Wordplay account tweeted that they were aware some players had their streak reset. The latest update came five hours later:
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