Leaving aside the fun element, here's the upside:
> ... Wordle is a webpage, and webpages can be saved. (This particular
webpage runs on client-side code, which helps considerably.)
>
> You could download a complete copy of the game right now that contains
all the answers, cycles to the proper new puzzle each day, and still
comes with the same “Share” button so you can share those all-important
little squares with fellow players.
But the glass-half-full person inside me has a concern:
Now the Web 2.0+ brigade will twig to the fact that:
- despite implementing very effective consumer manipulation, and
creating the digital surveillance economy, they haven't yet actually
dismantled the real, request-response, client-side-capable Web; and
- they'd better get on and do so.
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On 3/2/22 1:18 am, Stephen Loosley wrote:
> Ivan writes,
>
>> and before it, too, gets hidden behind the NYT paywall, try Nerdle
>> for the mathematically inclined… https://nerdlegame.com
>
> Ah, thanks Ivan.
>
> And, Karl writes:
>
>> The real one only provides one puzzle per day which I find quite endearing.
>> Oh - and the real one can be played on anything because it's just a website.
>
> Yes, agree Karl.
>
> Interestingly, and on all these matters, one happens across this today:
>
>
> “Wordle will be free forever because you can right-click to save the whole
> game”
>
> By Sean Hollister Feb 1, 2022,
> https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/1/22912711/wordle-web-save-download-webpage-local-personal
>
> Wordle is the pandemic game we didn’t know we needed, so there’s
> understandably some fear that its brand-new owner, The New York Times, might
> eventually ruin it somehow.
>
> But as technologist Aaron Rieke brilliantly explains in a Twitter thread,
> there’s little chance of that — because Wordle is a webpage, and webpages can
> be saved. (This particular webpage runs on client-side code, which helps
> considerably.)
>
> You could download a complete copy of the game right now that contains all
> the answers, cycles to the proper new puzzle each day, and still comes with
> the same “Share” button so you can share those all-important little squares
> with fellow players.
>
> I checked real quick on my Windows desktop, and sure enough, right-click >
> save as created a complete copy of Wordle on my desktop, just like any other
> webpage I might save for offline use.
>
> I double-clicked the icon to launch it in my web browser, and it loaded
> today’s word.
>
> It doesn’t retain my previous progress, just like the web version doesn’t
> keep your streak intact when you move from playing Wordle in a desktop
> browser to playing Wordle on a phone — but you could theoretically start
> building a new one if you want, and I wouldn’t be surprised if someone
> figures out a way to import progress as well. (Several people have suggested
> to me that you can pull it from your browser using developer tools, since the
> game uses local storage for that as well.)
>
> Where will you play Wordle next? It sounds like there may soon be plenty of
> options in addition to the one The New York Times suggested will “initially”
> be free. Because every web browser comes with instructions on how to download
> webpages for offline use.
>
> And while I haven’t tried two days in a row to see if it loads the next word,
> it sure looks to me like the Reading List you’ll find in the iOS copies of
> Chrome, Safari, and Firefox saves a working offline copy of Wordle, too.
>
> There’s an intriguing question here over whether this might be copyright
> infringement, so I’m not going to necessarily recommend you do any of the
> above — but saving webpages for offline use is a time-honored feature of all
> these browsers, and places like the Internet Archive do it consistently and
> continuously for much of the public web.
>
> So I expect that The New York Times will make it easier on everyone and keep
> Wordle free forever.
>
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