Posted on 05/09/2022 12:57:34 PM PDT by grundle
The New York Times has apologized after Monday’s Wordle included a solution for some players that may have been offensive due to its connection to recent political events in the US. Some Wordle players woke up today to find out the solution to the daily puzzle was “fetus,” a selection The New York Times said was “entirely unintentional and a coincidence,” in a note the outlet’s Games team published at 12:01AM.
According to The Times, the word was loaded into the game “last year,” meaning its selection predates both the company’s purchase of Wordle and the May 2nd leak of a draft decision by the US Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. When The Times Games team discovered last week that Monday’s puzzle would feature the word fetus, it said it did its best to alter the answer for “as many solvers as possible.” However, due to the way Wordle loads data, those who keep the game running in a tab that they never refresh still saw the old selection. The Times said it hopes to avoid a similar situation occurring in the future.
“We’re now busy revamping Wordle’s technology so that everyone always receives the same word,” the outlet said. “We are committed to ensuring that tens of millions of people have a gratifying and consistent experience, every day.” The Games team added that it wants Wordle “to remain distinct from the news,” a stance that has drawn criticism from some players.
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The New York Times’ emoticon should be a dead fetus.
(woke up today to find out the solution to the daily puzzle was “fetus,”)
🤔
Oh Noes.
Words are mean, they can hurt people.
So these people are triggered by the word “fetus”? Hmm...
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My wordle today was “shine”.
It was not fetus. It was shine and I got it on three.
I believe them. It was likely a coincidence that the Times would bring up a word for a baby. Otherwise they would have opted for a word that focused on the mother not the baby.
Mine was bagel, which made me hungry.
FETUS: an unborn offspring of a mammal, in particular an unborn human baby more than eight weeks after conception.
This is why they removed it. It would remind folks of the inconvenient truth about what a fetus actually is.
My wordle today was “shine”.
Same here.
“It was not fetus. It was shine and I got it on three”
I got mine in five. Tired this morning and riding the freeway bus to downtown.
Fetus is Latin for child. Not an unborn child, just a child.
I normally take more chances. Believe me. Today was rare. Lol.
I got it in five, it was fetus and I got hung up by the spelling, it was mispronouncing it and thought that fetu(s) did not make sense.
My word was fetus. I keep the tab open on my phone all the time.
players woke up today to find out the solution to the daily puzzle was “fetus,”
and woke players immediately had fits of vapors.
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