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I made a copy the day The New York Times bought Wordle: https://buchh.fun/wordle

Thanks to Josh for making Wordle with a free license.

Hmm. The #241 word was changed between original and NYT, and I just played your copy and it was using the NYT word instead of Josh's. I don't want to spoil the 2 words here so here's a link to Mashable that covers the two different words to the same puzzle number. https://mashable.com/article/wordle-241-glitch-answer

I checked the other commenter's rehost and it also used NYT's word. So does this mean all supposed "rehosts" don't and can't work if the word list still defaults to NYT's?

Nevermind, the Mashable article misreported what happened. NYT didn't replace Agora with Aroma, they removed Agora and Aroma was simply the next one in line. My apologies, your rehost is fine.

Original: #241 agora, #242 aroma, #243 caulk, #244 shake

NYT list: #241 aroma, #242 caulk, #243 shake, #244 <not out yet>

Because I got Aroma instead of Agora on your rehost and didn't check the puzzle number, and because I took Mashable's word that Aroma was a replacement for Agora, I mistakenly thought your rehost was using NYT's word list.

It could still be improved. e.g., guessing right on the first word should evoke "lucky", not "genius".

Did the original Wordle have a free license? I don't recall seeing license information anywhere.

It's still there in the JavaScript file.

> Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.

It appears to be the Zero-Clause BSD, but for some reason, it says Microsoft holds the copyright. Could original author must have used something with the same license to write Wordle? If it isn't a free license and I am misinterpreting the code, I would be happy to take my version down.

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