cheat at Wordle

 The now established social-media craze is Wordle, the simple word game where you have six guesses to match the game’s five-letter solution. Five green squares means you’ve succeeded, and can rack up likes on Twitter and Facebook. But there are at least three simple ways to cheat at Wordle—including a way to discover Wordle’s word in advance for the next days or weeks — unless the new owner of Wordle ,The New York Times, changes the Wordle answers. We have Wordle spoilers! Use our Table of Contents to jump right to the Wordle answers for today as well as upcoming Wordle puzzles.

Update on May 9: The New York Times changed a programmed answer, “FETUS,” from Game 324. This accidentally coincided with the leak of the proposed reversal of Roe v. Wade, the original court ruling which preserved abortion rights. “This is entirely unintentional and a coincidence — today’s original answer was loaded into Wordle last year,” the Times wrote.

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This story shows how you can predict the upcoming Wordle answers by looking at the site’s code. But the Times hinted that it may start funneling answers to players from another source, which would eliminate the primary method to cheat at Wordle. “We want to emphasize that this is a very unusual circumstance,” the paper wrote. “When we acquired Wordle in January, it had been built for a relatively small group of users. We’re now busy revamping Wordle’s technology so that everyone always receives the same word. We are committed to ensuring that tens of millions of people have a gratifying and consistent experience, every day.”

BoingBoing has also noticed that the future Wordle solutions have now diverged from the original Wordle site code, with some “ruder” answers removed. But you can still find the answers in the site code.

Beat Wordle using WordHippo

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Let’s start with Wordle 213, whose solution stumped Twitter. Many people discovered that the first three letters were P-R-O…and then absolutely failed to guess the last two letters, X and Y. Naturally, Wordlers probably considered more common words like “proud” and “prowl” first. But what words would make sense?

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Enter WordHippo, a nifty little tool that allows you to select words with different characteristics. The link leads to “five-letter words beginning with PRO,” but the page includes an advanced word search of varying length, with a selection of letters that you decide, and in varying configurations. As you start ruling out letters, the site can give you a smaller and smaller pool of potential words to guess from. Using WordHippo isn’t necessarily a Wordle “cheat,” per se, but it’s close.