Hit the word game The New York Times has acquired Wordle, but the transition hasn’t been without bumps.
It’s official: Wordle has completed its relocation to the New York Times today, but some players are enraged since their stats have been erased during the transition.
Last week, the New York Times agreed to pay “low seven figures” to acquire the viral hit, which went from a few players to more than one million daily users in the span of one month, according to an anonymous source. While the New York Times and the game’s creator, Josh Wardle, both promised flawless stat transfers, that hasn’t been the case for all players thus far.
Twitter has been flooded with stories from gamers who have lost their streaks, their record of consecutive wins, or even their win and loss percentages.
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If you’ve never played Words with Friends, it may not seem important, but those of us who do take pride in our winning streaks take this very seriously. It’s fun to pit your wits against your friends or random strangers on Twitter, but there’s no way to establish just how brilliant you really are without keeping score.
The New York Times has presented conflicting statements on the matter. The following statement may be found on the game’s help page:
Please tell me how I may import my game stats onto the new Wordle site.
Your game data (including streaks) have been moved to Wordle’s new home on New York Times Games automatically. There’s nothing you can do.
As if to contradict the first sentence, it suggests the potential that stats have been lost just below it:
Help! There was a problem with the migration of my game statistics and streaks.
Wordle’s new home on New York Times Games has received your game stats automatically. If your data isn’t quite what you remember, double-check that you’re playing on the same device and browser as before. All of your game data is saved locally on your browser, so you don’t have to do anything to upload your stats.
New York Times stated on Twitter today that some of its players have been impacted and that it is “currently examining” the matter.
Nobody at the Tom’s Guide office has had any problems with this. Positive news: it seems that some impacted users have been able to retrieve their stats.
Unfortunately, it looks that browsers are having problems because of a redirect set up to move visitors from powerlanguage.com to https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle, the new home of the game. Even if it’s only for a few seconds, the remedies that have been offered all rely on deceiving the browser into believing it’s still at the original URL.
One user said they were able to address the problem by “copying the migration URL into Chrome,” while another said they were able to fix it by erasing their browser history for the previous hour or so.
We hope New York Times will be able to restore everyone’s winning streaks and win-percentage records so that it doesn’t spoil one of 2022’s huge success stories.
Putting the current issue aside, there’s no indication that has occurred. There is still no charge for Wordle, and the New York Times migration has altered very little. A few tweaks have been made to Wordle, including a slightly different typeface, a menu that allows you go to other NYT games, and a Twitter connection that leads to the NYT Games account rather than Wardle’s own.