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And they broke everybody’s streak in the process while reusing today‘s word…

Way to destroy a good brand.

Apparently the old Wordle URL redirects to the new NYT page, and it includes the statistics as a JSON in the URL so the new page know what's the old statistics is.

Ah, I was wondering how it persisted the stats (which I presumed were stored via localStorage).

This is clearly a violation of privacy because the url is unencrypted. NYT may face a billionaire lawsuit and his future is compromised.

The url is encrypted, the entire thing is over tls.

I find the idea amusing that exposing people's wordle scores would result in billion dollar damages. My life was ruined because someone was able to find out 60% of my wins are on 6 guesses!

Also makes it really easy to forward a user to a nytimes phishing site.

e.g.

"Hey - did you see the new wordle? https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/?url=https://www.exam... "

Seems like hopefully an easy and obvious fix - no need for a fully open redirect here!

Ah! Thank you for this, I was wondering how they preserved the statistics through a move to a whole different site (where the old local storage of course can’t be accessed)

The statistics worked for me too, just the streak was reset.

Ditto. You can fix it:

const d = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("nyt-wordle-statistics"))

console.log(d)

d.currentStreak = // whatever your streak was

d.gamesPlayed = d.gamesPlayed - 1

d.gamesWon = d.gamesWon - 1

d.guesses["4"] = d.guesses["4"] - 1 // subtract the last game

localStorage.setItem("nyt-wordle-statistics", JSON.stringify(d))

It persisted my streak -- not sure why yours didn't transfer. I did see the onboarding page again.

I'm running Chrome on Win10 and my records survived the migration, so your mileage may vary.

Stretch to call it a brand. haha

It's a brand the nyt considered worth 7 figures.

Interesting. This game has been on Dutch television (Lingo) since I was a small child. (At least if not longer.) what is so special about it?

Colored boxes that you can paste anywhere that supports emoji/whatever that show your final game state.

Sometimes it really is that simple.

Didn’t break my streak.

It appears you have to replay today's word. I play it shortly after midnight and while my stats transferred, it didn't know I'd already played.

Lost my streak :rage:

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