The New York Times Changed the Wordle Word Early Today
It appears that the Wordle word for May 9 was different for some folks that played earlier today. Sources on Reddit have found that there were two different possible Wordle answers, and some are curious as to why their answers were not the same. Spoiler Warning for the Wordle answer for May 9th.
After the popular word game went viral early in 2022, the New York Times games website purchasedWordle for «seven figures» in a surprise move. After their acquisition, the NYT altered the possible five-letter word list to remove several non-American spellings of words, potentially offensive words like slurs, and more. In spite of this alteration, it looks like one might have slipped through the censoring process, as the word of the day changed partway into the day of May 9.
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Early today in the eastern-most parts of the English-speaking world, Wordle players on the NYTs Games website were met with two different answers. While some Wordle players got the word FETUS as the answer for today's puzzle, others ended up with the final answer of SHINE. Based on the time stamps of the Reddit posts, players were getting both words up until very recently.
Why players are getting different answers is not entirely clear, but it might be because of the nature of one of the words. Given the current tension in the United States on Roe vs. Wade's possible removal, the word FETUS might have seemed like a poor choice for the Wordle puzzle answer. It may have been altered by the NYTs team in hopes of the second word being a little less fraught.
Since the New York Times censoring Wordle back in February when the original acquisition happened, some players have complained that the Wordle puzzles have gotten
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