Wordle, as we are sure you have already heard, has been devoured by The New York Times . And while the massively popular — if occasionally divisive — word logic game is still available to play in its original, unmarred form for now, it’s only a matter of time before the standalone site is shuttered in favor of its inevitable, unholy merger with Paper of Record’s word games section. After that: the dreaded paywall, most likely.
But hope remains! In fact, thanks to an extremely helpful heads up from Motherboard, Wordle fans can easily download the original source code along with its over 2,000-answer lexicon — entirely for free. Broken down to a word a day, that’s over 7 years of pure puzzling goodness, free of capitalist behemoths and classist paywalls.
