Damn. I have a subscription to NYT but it doesn't include the puzzles.

The exact quote from the NYT article is, "The company said the game would initially remain free to new and existing players". 🙄

Yes, you'll undoubtedly soon need a subscription to NYT Games to play.

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Well, Wirecutter used to be free and now it's a paid extra.

Wirecutter is extra? I havea NYT subscription plus a games subscription. So far i can read Wirecutter, which i like a lot.

I think Wirecutter is like Cooking: you get a certain number of free articles if you're a regular subscriber, but beyond that you have to pay.

Oh Fudge! That will make it twice as hard with 17 variations, and behind a paywall, taking away a fun game for those of us who refuse to buy a subscription. 🤬

There are plenty of copycat versions that work the same way. Here's one: https://hellowordl.net/#

But just think how interesting the words will be now .

Wirecutter is free if you have an All Access NYT subscription or home delivery. If you have basic digital then it's as Bookwoman described - you get a few teaser articles each month. Or you can pay an additional $40 on top of the basic digital fee for an annual subscription.

This was on the FB Spelling Bee group page.

All the best to Josh Wardle, but I hope that the NYT doesn't ruin the game.

I heard they paid 'in the low 7 figures.' So I assume it was in the thousands. Not a fortune.

Jane

Seven figures is at least a million.

I heard they paid 'in the low 7 figures.' So I assume it was in the thousands.

huh?

6 figures is 100,000 and up

7 figures is 1,000,000 and up, etc.

Maybe we need NUMBERLE.....

Our oldest son is a software engineer, and he and I play Wordle each day and share our results. So of course I had to let him know about this, and of course, he's not interested, LOL. While he was here at Christmas, he and I did a few puzzles together, one of which was Sudoku, and then one afternoon he just wrote an app to solve Sudoku puzzles -because, of course, he can. But this kid is completely disinterested in monetizing anything, LOL.

Bookwoman, thanks for the link to the similar game.

2katz4me, NUMBERLE would be NERDLE. We have a Nerdle thread here at the KT.

https://nerdlegame.com/

I hope Querdle doesn't get sold next. It's my current favorite.

Apparently there have been some complaints that since the game has been sold the words have become harder to solve. The complaints were over the words cynic, caulk and one another (amour?). I got them so they can't be that hard to solve.

There is probably a cycle to them such as is the case for 7 little words and the mini-crossword which both seem to become more difficult as the week goes on - or at least it seems that way for me.

I agree that the words aren't hard. However, I quickly realized that I wasn't cut out to play PRATTLE--a Wordle-type game for people familiar with Shakespeare.

https://prattle.folger.edu/