So Neal solves Wordle every midnight to keep this game running?
When the NYT bought the site, they shuffled the word list but (at least at first) kept this system. They may have obfuscated it by now though.
Either way, since Wordle is a free game, it's not difficult to automate a script that will attempt to solve it and grab the correct answer.
Seems like it has answers up to July 30, so he's either a time traveller or it's possible to get future answers by looking at the Wordle source.