Wordle’s daily word will now be handpicked by an NYT editor

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Now, depending on Bennett’s curation, the nature—or difficulty level—of Wordle’s daily solution may change. It’s unclear what direction this might take, but the Times has shared that they intend to keep the game’s vocabulary ‘fun, accessible, lively and varied’.

Wordle’s new answer list will contain all five-letter words that match those criteria, except for plural forms of three- or four-letter words that end in ‘ES’ or ‘S’, such as FOXES or ROPES. You can continue using such plurals to make guesses, but they will no longer be set as the final answer you’re looking for.

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According to the Times, ‘tens of millions of people’ have played Wordle in the last 10 months. The game has developed its own subculture with hundreds of popular spinoffs, including ones in Indian languages. We spoke to five South Asian developers behind such creations, to understand what goes behind making online games using regional scripts. You can take a look at our findings here.