Among so many novelties that January left us, one of the most impressive was the purchase of Wordle by The New York Times. Neither slow nor lazy, from the renowned American newspaper they decided to put their hands on the game that is a sensation on the web, and the news has not gone unnoticed.
But beyond the memes and jokes about how the new owners could ruin Wordle, there has also been real concern from users regarding the fate of the popular proposal. Fortunately, there is a simple method that will allow you to continue enjoying the original Wordle experience for free and offline, and regardless of whether The New York Times imposes changes to the game or applies a paywall to it.
The data began to circulate on Twitter through Aaron Rieke (via The Verge). As the aforementioned explains, anyone can download the full game on their computer, for the simple fact that its operation resides in the browser. So, if you enter Wordle from your preferred browser, right click and choose “Save as…”, you will forever have a copy of the proposal that has fanaticized users all over the world. .
“Wordle is a little game that runs entirely in the browser. The daily words are there in the code, in a giant list – there are thousands of them. So you can save a copy of the website right now, unplug your computer internet, and play Wordle every day for years,” he explained.
The original Wordle will survive, even if The New York Times ruins the game
Without a doubt, we are facing a tip as simple as it is effective. Even Rieke mentions that it is possible to access Wordle from copies saved on platforms such as the Internet Archive. But that's not all, since apparently using different mirrors of the website does not affect the word that users must guess that day. And that's not all, because the downloaded version still allows you to share the result on social networks at the end of the attempts.
Rieke's “trick” works perfectly on a computer, although the experience may not be the same on a mobile device. When we tried to download the Wordle web page from an Android smartphone, we found that it did not reproduce it faithfully when opened. It may depend on each device, it is a matter of trying.
For now, it is a good option to consider if you believe that Wordle will no longer be the same when it passes into the hands of The New York Times; or if you are simply looking to create a new streak without relying on an internet connection.
