The
New York Times,
new owner of the online game sensation
Wordle
, has removed from the list of possible solutions several words deemed either offensive or inaccessible to the general public, the media group confirmed on Tuesday.
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"We're updating the word list over time and removing obscure words in an effort to keep the puzzle accessible to more people, as well as hurtful or rude words
," said Jordan Cohen, director of communications. of the
New York Times
in a statement to AFP.
The media group had acquired the viral online game at the end of January for several million dollars.
The Boingboing.net site had reported on Friday that the coarse
pussy
(pussy) and
whore
(whore), or even the judged abstruse
pupal
(nymphal) and
agora
were now purged .
A hostage-taking foiled
Internet users noticed this change by continuing to play on Wordle's old platform after it migrated to the
New York Times
platform .
Players who had not updated the game page thus kept the old list, while those playing on the new page had a list and therefore a different solution to certain words of the day.
Five letters, six essays and a single word to discover per day:
Wordle
's formula is extremely simple, but online gambling has become a phenomenon in just four months.
It is now practiced by several million Internet users and is so popular that it has given rise to some surprising situations.
Last week, an American octogenarian was saved from being held hostage for several hours after her daughter realized that she had not sent her her results for the day to Wordle.
