How to play six years' worth of Wordle for free

How to play vi years' worth of Wordle for gratuitous — forever

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The auction of Wordle to the New York Times has led to some fears that it may end up behind a paywall, but you needn't worry — since it's possible to save the game and play offline anyhow.

That's correct. Those of you lamenting the fact Wordle has sold out (which is unfair) and worried that it might no longer exist gratuitous (though the NYT says that won't happen), have something to keep you going for the firsthand future. In fact, it could last you for more 2,000 days into the time to come, which is almost 6 years.

Then what'south going on here? Well, as Twitter user Aaron Rieke explains, information technology's all because Wordle is hosted as an ordinary web page — and therefore information technology's possible to save a copy of the whole game as a plaintext HTML file. What's more than, that re-create that contains all the answers to the game, and can be cycled to a new version of the puzzle every mean solar day.

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Plus, for those of you who love to show off your incredible success (or lack thereof), the web folio still lets you lot share your score over social media. In fact the only real difference is that you tin can't relieve your streaks — which isn't exactly a major issue.

Sounds proficient, right? Well, it could certainly be useful if you lot're without cyberspace admission for a while and demand your daily fix. But comport in mind that it could potentially count as copyright infringement, so we wouldn't necessarily propose you to exercise information technology.

If you do determine to practice it, then it'south as unproblematic equally using the 'save as' choice on the open game, downloading the HTML and game files, then opening the HTML version in a browser.

Note, though, that this doesn't seem to work on mobile devices. There'due south no option to save the webpage as an html file, and my phone wasn't able to read the relevant files when I manually transferred them from my laptop.

All the same, it is possible to bookmark the file once it's open up on your desktop. Provided you don't delete or move any of the game files, that means you can open up up the file like whatever other webpage — even when your machine is offline.

Of class being able to play Wordle each twenty-four hour period isn't the same as beating it regularly, so you'll want to make sure you're using 1 of the all-time Wordle start words.

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