The New York Times, owner of Wordle, is suing a one-man geography-guessing alternative project named Worldle.
Hit puzzle game Wordle was the work of British designer Josh Wardle, until it was bought by The New York Times in 2022 for a seven-figure sum. It's now operated as part of The New York Times' growing games portfolio and is played by millions daily.
The browser-based Worldle, meanwhile, was built and is still run by one man - Seattle-based Kory McDonald, and has around 100,000 players each month.
The New York Times is fighting to take down a game called Worldle, according to a legal filing viewed by the BBC, in which The Times apparently argued that the geography-based game is "creating confusion" by using a name that's way too similar to Wordle.
Worldle is "nearly identical in appearance, sound, meaning, and imparts the same commercial impression" to Wordle, The Times claimed.
The Times bought Wordle in 2022, paying software developer Josh Wardle seven figures for the daily word-guessing puzzle game after its breakout success during the pandemic. Around the same time, Worldle was created—along with more than 100 other Wordle spinoffs offering niche alternatives to Wordle, including versions in different languages and completely different games simply using the name construction ending in "-le." The Times filed for a Wordle trademark the day after buying the game and by March 2022, it started sending takedown requests.
Remember Wordle? I sure do and one of the ways I start my days at work is to pull up the site and give it a quick play. But I honestly may just need to stop, given the behavior of the current owners of the game.
For this discussion, you really do need to recall that Wordle began as a free to play, simple daily game that became a quick craze nationally. It was created by one person, Josh Wardle, who made absolutely clear at the time that he had no interest in wrapping anything like intellectual property around the game. And when othersdid create spinoffs or clones of the game, he handled it in roughly as congenial a manner possible.
But then he sold the game to the New York Times. And the Times promptly began to strongarm these spinoffs and clones into shutting down, wielding IP threats to do so. That was 2 years ago and the craze around Wordle has certainly died down. Has the New York Times’ bullying declined as well?
Two takedown requests were issued in January against unofficial Korean and Bosnian-language versions of the game. Additional requests were filed this week against Wirdle — a variant created by dialect group I Hear Dee in 2022 to promote the Shaetlan language — and Reactle, an open-source Wordle clone built using React, TypeScript, and Tailwind. It was developed prior to the Times’ purchase of the game, according to its developer, Chase Wackerfuss.
The Reactle code has been copied around 1,900 times, according to GitHub, allowing developers to build upon it to create a wide variety of Wordle-inspired games that use different languages, themes, and visual styles, some of which 404 Media says are “substantially different” from Wordle. The DMCA notice against Reactle also targets all of these games forked from the original Reactle code on GitHub, alleging that spinoffs containing the Wordle name have been made in “bad faith” and that “gameplay is copied exactly” in the Reactle repository. Numerous developers commenting on a Hacker News thread also claim to have been targeted with DMCA takedowns.
This is silly. The Times has an advantage over all of these other clones, because it has the first version of the game. When people go to play Wordle, the vast majority of them are going to find themselves on the NYT website. A bunch of hobbyists accessing a clone a thousand times just isn’t going to represent some enormous threat to the Times.
And, hell, Wordle itself is very similar to a game created in the 50’s that was played on paper, as well as a game show called Lingo. And, ultimately, the game is also essentially a vocabulary version of the board game Mastermind.
Meaning what, exactly? Well, meaning that it’s quite rich for the New York Times to go around shutting down similar or derivative games simply because it bought, but did not create, the Wordle IP that its creator never wanted to see wielded in this way. And, in large part, over “gameplay mechanics” that the game essentially lifted from a game show from several decades ago.
Amusingly, Wordle has itself been criticized over striking similarities it shares with Lingo, a 1980s game show that centered on players guessing five-letter words, with a grid that changes color based on accuracy.
Unfortunately these are all small entities that the NYT is bullying here and most if not all of them have declined to fight back so far. Here’s hoping there’s at least one of them out there that wants to step up and push back on these DMCA notices.
It is a cold Friday in March, I turned a year older this week, and I am in a bit of a mood for no good reason besides being a cranky old guy. So perhaps it is time for some bullet point bile, broken up into three categories. Can you put each in its correct place?
The New York Times to Impose Its New Wordle Order
The self-proclaimed “paper of record” took a bit of time from its nearly non-stop headlines about President Biden’s age to go after anybody who was out there peddling any games that seemed even Wordle adjacent.
A bit on the nose, eh Wordle?
The New York Times bought the game from its creator about two years back. The game wasn’t original, the concept wasn’t original, and even the name had been used before. But it became a hit during the pandemic and the Times wanted to expand its word games. One does not live by the Sunday crossword alone I guess.
This week their lawyers began sending out copyright based take down notices to “hundreds” of Wordle-like titles.
This should have been no surprise. The Times has a long history of sending its lawyers after any hint of what they consider infringement. I remember back in the 80s when Infocom‘s company newsletter was called the New Zork Times. They too received a cease and desist letter threatening legal action and had to change the name lest somebody mistake it for a product of the New York Times, which might cause confusion in the marketplace and tarnish the brand of the paper.
None of the regular sites I hit has gone down yet, but I will keep an eye out.
Nintendo Shuts Down Yuzu
Elsewhere out on the legal front, Nintendo won its lawsuit against Switch emulator creator Yuzu, who acceded to the mounting pressure from the video game giant who had been framing Yuzu’s intent as being to circumvent DRM, which would put it in line for violating the DMCA.
In addition to ceasing all development and support of its emulator, Yuzu also had to agree to pay all of Nintendo’s costs, which totaled up to $2.4 million by their calculation.
Nintendo has long been as fierce as the New York Times in sending its lawyers after anybody using their intellectual property, including some innocuous fan projects, and vigorously stomping out anything that might cause one less hardware unit to sell.
Anyway, I am kind of sad I missed out on Yuzu because, for me at least, the worst thing about playing games on the Switch is actually being required to play them on the Switch. I’d much prefer them on my PC. Alas, no longer and option.
Apple and Epic at it Again
Epic went spoiling for a fight with Apple and Google a few years back because… well, Tim Sweeney wants to be as rich as possible I guess. As with his fight with Steam, he just wants to be the person collecting the tax and resents other who got there first.
The fight with Apple has gone back and forth since then and it had looked like things had settled down with Epic getting some of what it wanted, including the ability to have its own storefront. And then Apple banned Epic’s developer account in the EU.
Sweeney was immediately out with histrionics, but Apple was also declaring that Epic was “verifiably untrustworthy” and would not live up to the developer agreement they had signed. This will all draw the attention of EU regulators again, who will be wielding their Digital Markets Act, it “tax the US tech companies” regulations.
How do I feel about this?
Survey say… let them fight!
It is hard to feel sad when rich people are fighting to be incrementally more rich.
Having chased away all serious, paying advertisers on the Twitter platform… we have Cheech & Chong, Crypto scams (still!), and nazi ads left, and I block all of them besides Cheech & Chong… Elon has been thrashing around trying to find SOMETHING that will make money for his $44 billion boondoggle. And so they have announced Articles.
From the @write account
You can have BOLD, ITALIC, and STRIKETHROUGH text. And images!
Freaking amazing, right? RIGHT?!?
Oh yeah. Who needs quote blocks or inline links, just give us money and we’ll let you do long form and give them a special icon and tab on your profile. We totally won’t change our mind in three months and disappear the whole thing the next time Elon has a brain fart, we promise!
I am just waiting until he finally gets around to re-inventing Twitter… a version without him on it.
EA Jumps on the AI Bandwagon
I mean, EA has a long tradition of being dumb, or at least not being able to read the room. And they are ramping up to lay off 5% of their staff. So they have to give the investors SOMETHING to be positive about, and AI is the magic wand currently. Just say that and Wall Street will love you, right? So how did EA CEO Andrew Wilson do on that? Let’s go check over at PC Gamer… and… oh my!
Truth in Headlines
I am not positive the bong hit was verified, but Andrew did ramble on about 3 billion people using EA tools to make games while he painted a picture of a future where EA simply didn’t have to pay any of those pesky creative or technical people who actually make literally everything they sell today.
There was some law of hiring I recall where bad managers only hire people dumber than they are, so when we’re at a point where the CEO of EA wants to fire everybody and I am starting to suspect that we are seeing this in action. Dumb guy achieves life goal, promoted to CEO and fires everybody.
That is probably being too hard on him. As we all know by this point, as a public company you must meet the infinite growth demands of Wall Street, and when you’ve got nothing you have to make shit up. This is a classic “making shit up” performance. He’ll probably get a huge bonus and lay off even more staff.
Cataclysm Classic Closed Beta Begins
Finally, Blizzard announced that Cataclysm Classic, which will remake the WoW Classic progression servers now lingering in Wrath of the Lich King into a new world, has started its closed beta test.
Can you re-run a cataclysm?
I’ve actually been waiting for this to show up, having worn out on Wrath Classic after five characters. However, closed beta doesn’t mean we’re close to actually getting it, and the roadmap that Blizzard put out at the beginning of the year made it seem like we would be into summer before the cataclysm hit. Still, it is nice to see it is finally in motion.
And on that bit of upbeat news, it is off to get through the day and to the weekend.
The New York Times has issued a takedown notice to Reactle, a Wordle clone, which has meant around 1900 other versions of the game have now been taken down.
Reactle was an open-source project created by an individual, the brilliantly-named Chase Wackerfuss, that contained instructions on how to create Wordle spin-offs, such as variations in different languages or themed answers. The code repository is no longer available on Github, following the DMCA takedown notice from the NYT.
"I write to submit a revised DMCA Notice regarding an infringing repository (and hundreds of forked repositories) hosted by Github that instruct users how to infringe The New York Times Co.'s ('The Times') copyright in its immensely popular Wordle game and create knock-off copies of the same," reads the notice, as reported by 404 Media.
Each day brings a new challenge for Wordle players, in which they have to guess today’s Wordle answer, which is an English word containing five letters. Players have six tries daily to figure out the word, and after each guess, the letters will be highlighted in certain colors based on how close you are to the correct answer.
A new Wordle becomes available at midnight local time and the daily answer is the same for all the players across the world. If you haven’t succeeded in figuring out today’s solution yet, you can have a look at what today’s Wordle answer is below.
The answer for Wordle today, August 3 (1,141), is—SCALE
You can also solve previous puzzles via the Wordle archives prepared by different websites, with one coming from Wordle Archive. We have also listed the answers for the past 20 puzzles if you wish to have more than one brainstorming session about Wordle today.
Previous Wordle Answers
Wordle 1,140 Answer (August 2) – FLAKE
Wordle 1,139 Answer (August 1) – CHALK
Wordle 1,138 Answer (July 31) – PENNE
Wordle 1,137 Answer (July 30) – FERAL
Wordle 1,136 Answer (July 29) – SUPER
Wordle 1,135 Answer (July 28) – SMOCK
Wordle 1,134 Answer (July 27) – JUICE
Wordle 1,133 Answer (July 26) – AWASH
Wordle 1,132 Answer (July 25) – PORCH
Wordle 1,131 Answer (July 24) – FORTE
Wordle 1,130 Answer (July 23) – PRONG
Wordle 1,129 Answer (July 22) – CADET
Wordle 1,128 Answer (July 21) – SPECK
Wordle 1,127 Answer (July 20) – SHAFT
Wordle 1,126 Answer (July 19) – REFER
Wordle 1,125 Answer (July 18) – NERDY
Wordle 1,124 Answer (July 17) – QUITE
Wordle 1,123 Answer (July 16) – DECOY
Wordle 1,122 Answer (July 15) – SWOON
Wordle 1,121 Answer (July 14) – VIDEO
Wordle 1,120 Answer (July 13) – ENACT
Wordle 1,119 Answer (July 12) – JIFFY
Wordle 1,118 Answer (July 11) – CAMEO
Wordle 1,117 Answer (July 10) – GAUNT
Wordle 1,116 Answer (July 9) – BLARE
Wordle 1,115 Answer (July 8) – SHAPE
Wordle 1,114 Answer (July 7) – CANON
Wordle 1,113 Answer (July 6) – SCOFF
Wordle 1,112 Answer (July 5) – CRUSH
Wordle 1,111 Answer (July 4) – DEBUT
Wordle 1,110 Answer (July 3) – THIGH
Wordle 1,109 Answer (July 2) – INLAY
Wordle 1,108 Answer (July 1) – ADAGE
Wordle 1,107 Answer (June 30) – BUDDY
Wordle 1,106 Answer (June 29) – ZEBRA
Wordle 1,105 Answer (June 28) – DROVE
Wordle 1,104 Answer (June 27) – ORDER
Wordle 1,103 Answer (June 26) – KNEAD
Wordle 1,102 Answer (June 25) – SAVOR
Wordle 1,101 Answer (June 24) – DOLLY
Wordle 1,100 Answer (June 23) – BUGLE
Wordle 1,099 Answer (June 22) – EDICT
Wordle 1,098 Answer (June 21) – PAINT
Wordle 1,097 Answer (June 20) – SCENT
Wordle 1,096 Answer (June 19) – TERSE
Wordle 1,095 Answer (June 18) – COVER
Wordle 1,094 Answer (June 17) – PRIOR
Wordle 1,093 Answer (June 16) – GRIND
Wordle 1,092 Answer (June 15) – PROUD
Wordle 1,091 Answer (June 14) – VAULT
Wordle 1,090 Answer (June 13) – ANGST
Wordle 1,089 Answer (June 12) – DETER
Wordle 1,088 Answer (June 11) – SWING
Wordle 1,087 Answer (June 10) – MANGA
Wordle 1,086 Answer (June 9) – CROWD
Wordle 1,085 Answer (June 8) – HENCE
Wordle 1,084 Answer (June 7) – MELON
Wordle 1,083 Answer (June 6) – ETHER
Wordle 1,082 Answer (June 5) – ORGAN
Wordle 1,081 Answer (June 4) – GROOM
Wordle 1,080 Answer (June 3) – STARK
Wordle 1,079 Answer (June 2) – BRAVO
Wordle 1,078 Answer (June 1) – BASIN
Wordle 1,077 Answer (May 31) – CHAOS
Wordle 1,076 Answer (May 30) – GUMMY
Wordle 1,075 Answer (May 29) – PAPAL
Wordle 1,074 Answer (May 28) – MINUS
Wordle 1,073 Answer (May 27) – SKIER
Wordle 1,072 Answer (May 26) – BEVEL
Wordle 1,071 Answer (May 25) – TITAN
Wordle 1,070 Answer (May 24) – GLIDE
Wordle 1,069 Answer (May 23) – SWISH
Wordle 1,068 Answer (May 22) – EXALT
Wordle 1,067 Answer (May 21) – DINGO
Wordle 1,066 Answer (May 20) – NICER
Wordle 1,065 Answer (May 19) – HITCH
Wordle 1,064 Answer (May 18) – BRINY
Wordle 1,063 Answer (May 17) – TUTOR
Wordle 1,062 Answer (May 16) – STALL
Wordle 1,061 Answer (May 15) – PINCH
Wordle 1,060 Answer (May 14) – AMASS
Wordle 1,059 Answer (May 13) – CUMIN
Wordle 1,058 Answer (May 12) – OUTER
Wordle 1,057 Answer (May 11) – TIDAL
Wordle 1,056 Answer (May 10) – MEDIA
Wordle 1,055 Answer (May 9) – JERKY
Wordle 1,054 Answer (May 8) – PIOUS
Wordle 1,053 Answer (May 7) – MUSTY
Wordle 1,052 Answer (May 6)– SHAVE
Wordle 1,051 Answer (May 5)– DECAL
Wordle 1,050 Answer(May 4) – VALUE
Wordle 1,049 Answer (May 3) – EBONY
Wordle 1,048 Answer (May 2) – SLICE
Wordle 1,047 Answer (May 1) – DIARY
Wordle 1,046 Answer (April 30) – PROWL
Wordle 1,045 Answer (April 29) – CRAFT
Wordle 1,044 Answer (April 28) – PRUNE
Wordle 1,043 Answer (April 27) – GLEAM
Wordle 1,042 Answer (April 26) – VAPID
Wordle 1,041 Answer (April 25) – INTRO
Wordle 1,040 Answer (April 24) – OVERT
Wordle 1,039 Answer (April 23) – ROVER
Wordle 1,038 Answer (April 22) – LASER
Wordle 1,037 Answer (April 21) – JOLLY
Wordle 1,036 Answer (April 20) – LUCID
Wordle 1,035 Answer (April 19) – RAISE
Wordle 1,034 Answer (April 18) – FACET
Wordle 1,033 Answer (April 17) – TITHE
Wordle 1,032 Answer (April 16) – SHANK
Wordle 1,031 Answer (April 15)– EQUIP
Wordle 1,030 Answer (April 14)– BLIMP
Wordle 1,029 Answer (April 13) – STEEL
Wordle 1,028 Answer (April 12)– WHINY
Wordle 1,027 Answer (April 11)– LOUSE
Wordle 1,026 Answer (April 10)– BROTH
Wordle 1,025 Answer (April 9)– MERGE
Wordle 1,024 Answer (April 8)– BREED
Wordle 1,023 Answer (April 7)– VOILA
Wordle 1,022 Answer (April 6)– FINCH
Wordle 1,021 Answer (April 5)– WRIST
Wordle 1,020 Answer (April 4) – CLIMB
Wordle 1,019 Answer (April 3) – PLAIT
Wordle 1,018 Answer (April 2)– SERUM
Wordle 1,017 Answer (April 1)– FROND
Wordle 1,016 Answer (March 31)– TABOO
Wordle 1,015 Answer (March 30)– FORCE
Wordle 1,014 Answer (March 29)– REALM
Wordle 1,013 Answer (March 28)–SPEAK
Wordle 1,012 Answer (March 27)– STUNG
Wordle 1,011 Answer (March 26)– MAYOR
Wordle 1,010 Answer (March 25)– SALLY
Wordle 1,009 Answer (March 24)– TOWEL
Wordle 1,008 Answer (March 23)– RISEN
Wordle 1,007 Answer (March 22)– DECAY
Wordle 1,006 Answer (March 21)– SHADE
Wordle 1,005 Answer (March 20) – LINGO
Wordle 1,004 Answer (March 19)– ABIDE
Wordle 1,003 Answer (March 18)–SPELT
Wordle 1,002 Answer (March 17)–SNORT
Wordle 1,001 Answer (March 16)–TOXIN
Wordle 1,000 Answer (March 15)–ERUPT
Wordle 999 Answer (March 14) –SINCE
Wordle 998 Answer (March 13)–LOCAL
Wordle 997 Answer (March 12)–HEAVE
Wordle 996 Answer (March 11)– PESKY
Wordle 995 Answer (March 10) – GRASP
Wordle 994 Answer (March 9) – CHEER
Wordle 993 Answer (March 8)–EARLY
Wordle 992 Answer (March 7) – CLONE
Wordle 991 Answer (March 6)–TEARY
Wordle 990 Answer (March 5)–HUNCH
Wordle 989 Answer (March 4) –FLAME
Wordle 988 Answer (March 3) –STATE
Wordle 987 Answer (March 2) – URBAN
Wordle 986 Answer (March 1) – FORTY
Wordle 985 Answer (February 29) – IMAGE
Wordle 984 Answer (February 28) – DEVIL
Wordle 983 Answer (February 27) – SENSE
Wordle 982 Answer (February 26) – OFTEN
Wordle 981 Answer (February 25) – SMITH
Wordle 980 Answer (February 24) – PIPER
Wordle 978 Answer (February 22) – HEAVY
Wordle 977 Answer (February 21) – BUILD
Wordle 976 Answer (February 20) – MATCH
Wordle 975 Answer (February 19) – PRICE
Wordle 974 Answer (February 18) – RIDGE
Wordle 973 Answer (February 17) – PSALM
Wordle 972 Answer (February 16) – STASH
Wordle 971 Answer (February 15) – ASCOT
Wordle 970 Answer (February 14) – TALON
Wordle 969 Answer (February 13) – SCRAM
Wordle 968 Answer (February 12) – PASTA
Wordle 967 Answer (February 11) – NEVER
Wordle 966 Answer (February 10) – FRIED
Wordle 965 Answer (February 9) – STIFF
Wordle 964 Answer (February 8) – PLACE
Wordle 963 Answer (February 7) – AFTER
Wordle 962 Answer (February 6) – WHICH
Wordle 961 Answer (February 5) – REPEL
Wordle 960 Answer (February 4) – VERGE
Wordle 959 Answer (February 3) – MICRO
Wordle 958 Answer (February 2) – CLEFT
Wordle 957 Answer (February 1) – ALIVE
Wordle 956 Answer (January 31) – BULKY
Wordle 955 Answer (January 30) – EXPEL
Wordle 954 Answer (January 29) – LEGGY
Wordle 953 Answer (January 28) – EMBER
Wordle 952 Answer (January 27) – SNAKE
Wordle 951 Answer (January 26) – ALOOF
Wordle 950 Answer (January 25) – BLOCK
Wordle 949 Answer (January 24) – RELIC
Wordle 948 Answer (January 23) – STILL
Wordle 947 Answer (January 22) – TWEAK
Wordle 946 Answer (January 21) – NORTH
Wordle 945 Answer (January 20) – LARGE
Wordle 944 Answer (January 19) – THING
Wordle 943 Answer (January 18) – STOLE
Wordle 942 Answer (January 17) – COURT
Wordle 941 Answer (January 16) – BLOND
Wordle 940 Answer (January 15) – LUNCH
Wordle 939 Answer (January 14) – DOING
Wordle 938 Answer (January 13) – HEARD
Wordle 937 Answer (January 12) – ROUTE
Wordle 936 Answer (January 11) – BRIEF
Wordle 935 Answer (January 10) – THREW
Wordle 934 Answer (January 9) – LINER
Wordle 933 Answer (January 8) – FINAL
Wordle 932 Answer (January 7) – STONY
Wordle 931 Answer (January 6) – CABLE
Wordle 930 Answer (January 5) – LUNGE
Wordle 929 Answer (January 4) – SCANT
Wordle 928 Answer (January 3) – TWIRL
Wordle 927 Answer (January 2) – AGING
Wordle 926 Answer (January 1) – MURAL
Wordle 925 Answer (December 31) – SALTY
Wordle 924 Answer (December 30) – THREE
Wordle 923 Answer (December 29) – CHILD
Wordle 922 Answer (December 28) – LEARN
Wordle 921 Answer (December 27) – DAISY
Wordle 920 Answer (December 26) – PHONE
Wordle 919 Answer (December 25) – EVOKE
Wordle 918 Answer (December 24) – GRACE
Wordle 917 Answer (December 23) – SLOPE
Wordle 916 Answer (December 22) – TOUCH
Wordle 915 Answer (December 21) – BUILT
Wordle 914 Answer (December 20) – SMALL
Wordle 913 Answer (December 19) – TABLE
Wordle 912 Answer (December 18) – FUNNY
Wordle 910 Answer (December 16) – BACON
Wordle 909 Answer (December 15) – GLOBE
Wordle 908 Answer (December 14) – TOPIC
Wordle 907 Answer (December 13) – WOULD
Wordle 907 Answer (December 13) – SPENT
Wordle 906 Answer (December 12) – THESE
Wordle 905 Answer (December 11) – HOUSE
Wordle 904 Answer (December 10) – CHAIN
Wordle 903 Answer (December 9) – SHIFT
Wordle 902 Answer (December 8) – SHARP
Wordle 901 Answer (December 7) – SLEEP
Wordle 900 Answer (December 6) – WOMAN
Wordle 899 Answer (December 5) – YOUNG
Wordle 898 Answer (December 4) – WORST
Wordle 897 Answer (December 3) – ADAPT
Wordle 896 Answer (December 2) – GENRE
Wordle 895 Answer (December 1) – TAKEN
Wordle 894 Answer (November 30) – RESIN
Wordle 893 Answer (November 29) – SUSHI
Wordle 892 Answer (November 28) – SCOPE
Wordle 891 Answer (November 27) – TAWNY
Wordle 890 Answer (November 26) – SOLID
Wordle 889 Answer (November 25) – GUIDE
Wordle 888 Answer (November 24) – THROW
Wordle 887 Answer (November 23) – QUEEN
Wordle 886 Answer (November 22) – PIXEL
Wordle 885 Answer (November 21) – PIANO
Wordle 884 Answer (November 20) – CANDY
Wordle 883 Answer (November 19) – QUEUE
Wordle 882 Answer (November 18) – THINK
Wordle 881 Answer (November 17) – TARDY
Wordle 880 Answer (November 16) – TRUST
Wordle 879 Answer (November 15) – SIGHT
Wordle 878 Answer (November 14) – SASSY
Wordle 877 Answer (November 13) – GREEN
Wordle 876 Answer (November 12) – MEANT
Wordle 875 Answer (November 11) – ACTOR
Wordle 874 Answer (November 10) – LEASH
Wordle 873 Answer (November 9) – GLAZE
Wordle 872 Answer (November 8) – NINJA
Wordle 871 Answer (November 7) – LIMIT
Wordle 870 Answer (November 6) – TRADE
Wordle 869 Answer (November 5) – FLARE
Wordle 868 Answer (November 4) – MANIA
Wordle 867 Answer (November 3) – ARDOR
Wordle 866 Answer (November 2) – UNTIL
Wordle 865 Answer (November 1) – NOISE
Wordle 864 Answer (October 31) – BLEAK
Wordle 863 Answer (October 30) – GRAIL
Wordle 862 Answer (October 29) – PHONY
Wordle 861 Answer (October 28) – MASON
Wordle 860 Answer (October 27) – NOBLE
Wordle 859 Answer (October 26) – PIQUE
Wordle 858 Answer (October 25) – RETRY
Wordle 857 Answer (October 24) – CAUSE
Wordle 856 Answer (October 23) – TEMPO
Wordle 855 Answer (October 22) – SMIRK
Wordle 854 Answer (October 21) – SMIRK
Wordle 853 Answer (October 20) – OCCUR
Wordle 852 Answer (October 19) – SPLAT
Wordle 851 Answer (October 18) – MERCY
Wordle 850 Answer (October 17) – ADULT
Wordle 849 Answer (October 16) – GRAPH
Wordle 846 Answer (October 13) – UNCLE
Wordle 845 Answer (October 12) – KNELT
Wordle 844 Answer (October 11) – SKUNK
Wordle 843 Answer (October 10) – SNAIL
Wordle 842 Answer (October 9) – TRUTH
Wordle 841 Answer (October 8) – BINGE
Wordle 840 Answer (October 7) – VIOLA
Wordle 839 Answer (October 6) – CHIME
Wordle 838 Answer (October 5) – BUNCH
Wordle 837 Answer (October 4) – SPURT
Wordle 836 Answer (October 3) – WHILE
Wordle 835 Answer (October 2) – MERRY
Wordle 834 Answer (October 1) – BERET
Wordle 833 Answer (September 30) – DADDY
Wordle 832 Answer (September 29) – AZURE
Wordle 831 Answer (September 28) – COACH
Wordle 830 Answer (September 27) – SMILE
Wordle 829 Answer (September 26) – LOYAL
Wordle 828 Answer (September 25) – ROCKY
Wordle 827 Answer (September 24) – RIGHT
Wordle 826 Answer (September 23) – CAROL
Wordle 825 Answer (September 22) – BRUSH
Wordle 824 Answer (September 21) – STONE
Wordle 823 Answer (September 20) – SNARE
Wordle 822 Answer (September 19) – CLOSE
Wordle 821 Answer (September 18) – FRANK
Wordle 820 Answer (September 17) – MUSIC
Wordle 819 Answer (September 16) – ANGEL
Wordle 818 Answer (September 15) – EXERT
Wordle 817 Answer (September 14) – RAYON
Wordle 816 Answer (September 13) – CLEAR
Wordle 815 Answer (September 12) – WHISK
Wordle 814 Answer (September 11) – OLDER
Wordle 813 Answer (September 10) – QUOTE
Wordle 811 Answer (September 8) – ROUSE
Wordle 810 Answer (September 7) – DWELL
Wordle 809 Answer (September 6) – GNASH
Wordle 808 Answer (September 5) – BIRCH
Wordle 807 Answer (September 4) – GIDDY
Wordle 806 Answer (September 3) – AWAIT
Wordle 805 Answer (September 2) – ONION
Wordle 804 Answer (September 1) – SPACE
Wordle 803 Answer (August 31) – BRIDE
Wordle 800 Answer (August 28) – WRITE
Wordle 799 Answer (August 27) – PEACE
Wordle 798 Answer (August 26) – CHOIR
Wordle 797 Answer (August 25) – OCEAN
Wordle 796 Answer (August 24) – WORDY
Wordle 795 Answer (August 23) – VERVE
Wordle 794 Answer (August 22) – SPICE
Wordle 793 Answer (August 21) – BEACH
Wordle 792 Answer (August 20) – QUEST
Wordle 791 Answer (August 19) – MAGMA
Wordle 790 Answer (August 18) – EXACT
Wordle 789 Answer (August 17) – AMISS
Wordle 788 Answer (August 16) – SCRUB
Wordle 787 Answer (August 15) – INDEX
Wordle 786 Answer (August 14) – SNAKY
Wordle 785 Answer (August 13) – WRATH
Wordle 784 Answer (August 12) – QUICK
Wordle 783 Answer (August 11) – HELLO
Wordle 782 Answer (August 10) – EMPTY
Wordle 781 Answer (August 9) – LOVER
Wordle 780 Answer (August 8) – BULLY
Wordle 779 Answer (August 7) – BROOK
Wordle 778 Answer (August 6) – POLYP
Wordle 777 Answer (August 5) – ANODE
Wordle 776 Answer (August 4) – CHART
Wordle 775 Answer (August 3) – PARTY
Wordle 774 Answer (August 2) – BEGET
Wordle 773 Answer (August 1) – TENTH
Wordle 772 Answer (July 31) – STYLE
Wordle 771 Answer (July 30) – BATHE
Wordle 770 Answer (July 29) – CURLY
Wordle 769 Answer (July 28) – ETHOS
Wordle 768 Answer (July 27) – DISCO
Wordle 767 Answer (July 26) – HEART
Wordle 766 Answer (July 25) – WHEEL
Wordle 765 Answer (July 24) – HOBBY
Wordle 764 Answer (July 23) – WHALE
Wordle 763 Answer (July 22) – FROZE
Wordle 762 Answer (July 21) – BURLY
Wordle 761 Answer (July 20) – FLANK
Wordle 760 Answer (July 19) – TONIC
Wordle 759 Answer (July 18) – FLYER
Wordle 758 Answer (July 17) – DROOP
Wordle 757 Answer (July 16) – TOPAZ
Wordle 756 Answer (July 15) – CRONE
Wordle 755 Answer (July 14) – BARGE
Wordle 754 Answer (July 13) – BARGE
Wordle 753 Answer (July 12) – WHIRL
Wordle 752 Answer (July 11) – EARTH
Wordle 751 Answer (July 10) – FOLLY
Wordle 750 Answer (July 9) – ENTER
Wordle 749 Answer (July 8) – COWER
Wordle 748 Answer (July 7) – DONUT
Wordle 747 Answer (July 6) – WINDY
Wordle 746 Answer (July 5) – VENOM
Wordle 745 Answer (July 4) – IRATE
Wordle 744 Answer (July 3) – HOTEL
Wordle 743 Answer (July 2) – MOSSY
Wordle 742 Answer (July 1) – BLEEP
Wordle 741 Answer (June 30) – STRAW
Wordle 740 Answer (June 29) – DINER
Wordle 739 Answer (June 28) – TRACT
Wordle 738 Answer (June 27) – ABOUT
Wordle 737 Answer (June 26) – GUEST
Wordle 736 Answer (June 25) – RODEO
Wordle 735 Answer (June 24) – COVET
Wordle 734 Answer (June 23) – COVET
Wordle 733 Answer (June 22) – TASTE
Wordle 732 Answer (June 21) – CRANE
Wordle 731 Answer (June 20) – FROST
Wordle 730 Answer (June 19) – KAZOO
Wordle 729 Answer (June 18) – SHYLY
Wordle 728 Answer (June 17) – RANCH
Wordle 727 Answer (June 16) – STRAP
Wordle 726 Answer (June 15) – MAYBE
Wordle 725 Answer (June 14) – PLUNK
Wordle 724 Answer (June 13) – PLUNK
Wordle 723 Answer (June 12) – WRONG
Wordle 722 Answer (June 11) – GUARD
Wordle 721 Answer (June 10) – AGAIN
Wordle 720 Answer (June 9) – BALSA
Wordle 719 Answer (June 8) – CRUMB
Wordle 718 Answer (June 7) – HATER
Wordle 717 Answer (June 6) – SCOUT
Wordle 716 Answer (June 5) – ENNUI
Wordle 715 Answer (June 4) – BEAST
Wordle 714 Answer (June 3) – NANNY
Wordle 713 Answer (June 2) – JAZZY
Wordle 712 Answer (June 1) – JAZZY
Wordle 711 Answer (May 31) – AGILE
Wordle 710 Answer (May 30) – KNEEL
Wordle 709 Answer (May 29) – SKIMP
Wordle 708 Answer (May 28) – SKIMP
Wordle 707 Answer (May 27) – RAMEN
Wordle 706 Answer (May 26) – SWINE
Wordle 705 Answer (May 25) – BAGEL
Wordle 704 Answer (May 24) – UTTER
Wordle 703 Answer (May 23) – CLERK
Wordle 702 Answer (May 22) – BRASH
Wordle 701 Answer (May 21) – BRASH
Wordle 700 Answer (May 20) – FLASK
Wordle 699 Answer (May 19) – SHORN
Wordle 698 Answer (May 18) – SHORN
Wordle 697 Answer (May 17) – PLANK
Wordle 696 Answer (May 16) — LATTE
Wordle 695 Answer (May 15) — CANOE
Wordle 694 Answer (May 14) — SCARF
Wordle 693 Answer (May 13) — ACRID
Wordle 692 Answer (May 12) — SNACK
Wordle 691 Answer (May 11) — BROOM
Wordle 690 Answer (May 10) — ETHIC
Wordle 689 Answer (May 9) — COCOA
Wordle 688 Answer (May 8) — AGLOW
Wordle 687 Answer (May 7) — GHOUL
Wordle 686 Answer (May 6) — ANGER
Wordle 685 Answer (May 5) — BELOW
Wordle 684 Answer (May 4) — HORDE
Wordle 683 Answer (May 3) — HORDE
Wordle 682 Answer (May 2) — SULKY
Wordle 681 Answer (May 1) — RANGE
Wordle 680 Answer (April30) — PLAZA
Wordle 679 Answer (April 29) — CEDAR
Wordle 678 Answer (April 28) — CIRCA
Wordle 677 Answer (April 27) — LOGIC
Wordle 676 Answer (April 26) — METRO
Wordle 675 Answer (April 25) — JOKER
Wordle 674 Answer (April 24) — KAYAK
Wordle 673 Answer (April 23) — KAYAK
Wordle 672 Answer (April 22) — KAYAK
Wordle 671 Answer (April 21) — KAYAK
Wordle 670 Answer (April 20) — PLATE
Wordle 669 Answer (April 19) — THUMP
Wordle 668 Answer (April 18) — HOUND
Wordle 667 Answer (April 17) — WHIFF
Wordle 666 Answer (April 16) — DWELT
Wordle 665 Answer (April 15) — THIEF
Wordle 664 Answer (April 14) — THIEF
Wordle 663 Answer (April 13) — CARAT
Wordle 662 Answer (April 12) — BORAX
Wordle 661 Answer (April 11) — QUALM
Wordle 660 Answer (April 10) — UNDER
Wordle 659 Answer (April 9) — SNAFU
Wordle 658 Answer (April 8) — LEDGE
Wordle 657 Answer (April 7) — LOCUS
Wordle 656 Answer (April 6) — LEAFY
Wordle 655 Answer (April 5) — SMASH
Wordle 654 Answer (April 4) — RATIO
Wordle 653 Answer (April 3) — FLORA
Wordle 652 Answer (April 2) — STOCK
Wordle 651 Answer (April 1) — MARCH
Wordle 650 Answer (March 31) — MARCH
Wordle 649 Answer (March 30) — BREAD
Wordle 648 Answer (March 29) — BESET
Wordle 647 Answer (March 28) — HURRY
Wordle 646 Answer (March 27) — GUANO
Wordle 645 Answer (March 26) — UNTIE
Wordle 644 Answer (March 25) — VOTER
Wordle 643 Answer (March 24) — GROUT
Wordle 642 Answer (March 23) — DUVET
Wordle 641 Answer (March 22) — DUVET
Wordle 640 Answer (March 21) — TOUGH
Wordle 639 Answer (March 20) — GLOVE
Wordle 638 Answer (March 19) — CREDO
Wordle 637 Answer (March 18) — YACHT
Wordle 636 Answer (March 17) — MEALY
Wordle 635 Answer (March 16) — CIDER
Wordle 634 Answer (March 15) — SWEEP
Wordle 633 Answer (March 14) — SURLY
Wordle 632 Answer (March 13) — BLAME
Wordle 631 Answer (March 12) — BIRTH
Wordle 630 Answer (March 11) — EMAIL
Wordle 629 Answer (March 10) — REVEL
Wordle 628 Answer (March 9) — WHERE
Wordle 627 Answer (March 8) — REGAL
Wordle 626 Answer (March 7) — HORSE
Wordle 625 Answer (March 6) — PINKY
Wordle 624 Answer (March 5) — TOXIC
Wordle 623 Answer (March 4) — TREND
Wordle 622 Answer (March 3) — SQUAT
Wordle 621 Answer (March 2) — ABOVE
Wordle 620 Answer (March 1) — MOOSE
Wordle 619 Answer (February 28) — POLKA
Wordle 618 Answer (February 27) — WORSE
Wordle 617 Answer (February 26) — SYRUP
Wordle 616 Answer (February 25) — FIFTY
Wordle 615 Answer (February 24) — ARBOR
Wordle 614 Answer (February 23) — VAGUE
Wordle 613 Answer (February 22) — RIPER
Wordle 612 Answer (February 21) — RUDDY
Wordle 611 Answer (February 20) — SWEET
Wordle 610 Answer (February 19) — KIOSK
Wordle 609 Answer (February 18) — AVAIL
Wordle 608 Answer (February 17) — CACHE
Wordle 607 Answer (February 16) — MAGIC
Wordle 606 Answer (February 15) — SALSA
Wordle 605 Answer (February 14) — SOUND
Wordle 604 Answer (February 13) — USAGE
Wordle 603 Answer (February 12) — GIANT
Wordle 602 Answer (February 11) — DEBUG
Wordle 601 Answer (February 10) — HEADY
Wordle 600 Answer (February 9) — STAGE
Wordle 599 Answer (February 8) — FLAIL
Wordle 598 Answer (February 7) — APPLE
Wordle 597 Answer (February 6) — NINTH
Wordle 596 Answer (February 5) — DANCE
Wordle 595 Answer (February 4) — UNLIT
Wordle 594 Answer (February 3) — TASTY
Wordle 593 Answer (February 2) — SHIRK
Wordle 592 Answer (February 1) — SCOLD
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