Wordle Troll Bot is Tricking Players Into Seeing the Next Day's Word
A Wordle troll bot called The Wordlinator is punishing players for sharing their results to Twitter by tricking them into seeing the next day’s word. Wordle’s simplistic game design and easy share mechanic have enabled its rapid success, as people all around the world attempt to guess the day’s five-letter word. The Wordle box is one reason for the game’s success because it allows players to share their results with friends or on social media, without revealing the correct answer. The feature shows the grey, yellow, and green boxes a player accumulated in a game, revealing how many tries it took to get the correct answer. The feature has also created several memes like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles appearing in Wordleboxes which have only aided the game’s virality.
Wordle in itself is a simple concept but there are many different strategies to employ to correctly guess the five-letter word. Since there are only six tries, players have to utilize each guess to either confirm or deny the letters present in the answer. Grey boxes indicate letters that aren’t in the word, yellow shows letters that are in the word but in the wrong place, and green reveals a letter is in the right spot. Each day there is a different word to uncover and some are harder than others. Earlier this month, Wordle’s 219th word was particularly challenging, having gone viral on Twitter for its difficulty. Players took to social media to share their results — either with pride or shame — posting their Wordle box to reveal whether they solved the puzzle or failed to guess the word.
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To punish those who share their results on Twitter – deeming it Twitter bragging – a Wordle troll bot has been tricking players into
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