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Old 01-29-2022, 07:35 PM   #101
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Old 01-30-2022, 06:05 AM   #102
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Old 01-30-2022, 08:27 AM   #103
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Old 01-30-2022, 09:35 AM   #105
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Old 01-30-2022, 12:57 PM   #106
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Old 01-31-2022, 03:07 AM   #107
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Old 01-31-2022, 04:39 AM   #108
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Old 01-31-2022, 05:09 AM   #109
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Old 01-31-2022, 08:45 AM   #110
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Old 01-31-2022, 12:41 PM   #111
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Old 01-31-2022, 06:31 PM   #112
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The New York Times has apparently paid "low seven figures" for Wordle. I am definitely in the wrong business.
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Old 01-31-2022, 08:00 PM   #113
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You went with text based sports simulations, when the money turned out to be in text based text simulations.
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Old 02-01-2022, 02:13 AM   #114
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Old 02-01-2022, 04:40 AM   #115
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Old 02-01-2022, 06:44 AM   #116
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All the people losing their minds and calling this dude a sell out for taking life changing money are fucking morons.
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Old 02-01-2022, 07:11 AM   #117
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All the people losing their minds and calling this dude a sell out for taking life changing money are fucking morons.
Got to know when to sell high. Now might be the best time. It's so hyping, Google has developed a special Wordle image when you search for it. The hype will fly over sooner or later. In a year, nobody's playing anymore. Right?
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Old 02-01-2022, 07:43 AM   #118
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Got to know when to sell high. Now might be the best time. It's so hyping, Google has developed a special Wordle image when you search for it. The hype will fly over sooner or later. In a year, nobody's playing anymore. Right?

100%.

They will lose 75% of their base who won't want to make a NYT account and have to log in to play
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Old 02-01-2022, 07:53 AM   #119
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All the people losing their minds and calling this dude a sell out for taking life changing money are fucking morons.

Oh yeah. He earned that money and then some. Good for him.

And I agree that a LOT of what attracted people to Wordle is the simplicity. As soon as you have to start creating a NYT account, people are going to meh out.

One think that they could do is leave it pretty much unchanged except for mild ads/links to their other puzzles. But I don't think that they spent low seven figures for that.
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Old 02-01-2022, 08:02 AM   #120
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I think they wasted their money, but they would know better than me.

As soon as it becomes a hassle to play or the screen is flooded with ads, I'm out.
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Old 02-01-2022, 08:05 AM   #121
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Old 02-01-2022, 08:28 AM   #122
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Old 02-01-2022, 08:36 AM   #123
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Low seven figures for the New York Times is not much money. They probably spend that much on advertising per week. They might get their money's worth if all they do is put a link to their other games, on their website, to drive traffic there, which I would think would work better than a week's worth of banner ads and TV/radio commercials.

Just looked it up. In 2020, according to .Statista, NYT spent $135.9 million on advertising. Just slap a link to their other games on there and it's some of best advertising they can do. Of course, do any more than that, and they'll kill the game and throw their money away.
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Old 02-01-2022, 09:04 AM   #124
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All the people losing their minds and calling this dude a sell out for taking life changing money are fucking morons.

They're just insanely jealous that the guy made a million dollars on a project that a high schooler could do in a weekend.

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Old 02-01-2022, 09:30 AM   #125
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That's essentially how the internet works. I have almost uniquely chosen the worst path possible, if money was the object.
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Old 02-01-2022, 01:39 PM   #126
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NYT seems like a perfect home for it, considering the daily word challenge games they've already got.
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Old 02-02-2022, 03:42 AM   #127
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Old 02-02-2022, 04:34 AM   #128
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I was actually a little bit disappointed with the solution, because I've used this word as my starter several times since I went to hard mode.
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Old 02-02-2022, 01:45 PM   #134
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Found out today hard mode is actually easier than easy mode - on my 4th guess I typed in a word that didn’t include one of the yellows (managed to miss the fact I had 2 yellows!), and it refused to accept the entry…

In easy mode that would have counted as a fail, and I would have been on my 5th guess
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