The New York Times has developed an official companion bot WordleBot, to provide advice and assistance to Wordle players in improving their game.
What is WordleBot and how to get it?
The announcement by NYT read:
“Months ago, before The New York Times bought Wordle, we, like many others, began wondering about the best starting word. It seemed like a straightforward mathematical question — yet every person who approached the problem seemed to come up with a different answer.
WordleBot started as an attempt to settle this question once and for all. But along the way we realized that (a) the answer was more complicated than it seemed; and that (b) we were more interested in how closely our guesses matched those that would be chosen by a machine designed to solve Wordles.
Thus, WordleBot was born.”
Want to know why you played so well — or so badly — in today's wordle? Meet WordleBot, your daily wordle companion that will tell you how efficient and lucky you were — and it could help improve your results. https://t.co/I4S8Capq1c pic.twitter.com/do1UMxB7o7
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 8, 2022
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How does WordleBot work?
After you have completed a Wordle puzzle, you can visit the WordleBot site, which detects the last Wordle you have solved, or attempted to solve, and gives you the option to analyze it with a single click. It also has the option for you to upload a finished Wordle puzzle, so it can start working its magic on it. When it comes to skill, WorldeBot disregards the first guess.
It also offers a step-by-step explanation of an attempt, with suggested words indicated with a gold tick. The remaining slides then educate players about the number of viable answers still available and what substitutions they should have made instead.
Finally, it explains how it would have handled the daily problem.
Is it eerily similar to another tool?
But another Wordle tool creator has taken to social media to point out the “eerie” similarities between New York Times’ tool and their own Wordle Analyzer. The developer of the Wordle Analyzer Jake Archibald tweeted:
“Eerily similar isn’t it? Uses quality vs skill scoring, dynamic commentary, AI playthrough at the end. Not even a credit. Cuh!”
https://t.co/0UIH9MeRWy – 250k
NYT version – 5.5M— Jake Archibald (@jaffathecake) April 8, 2022
This news comes after the fact that the New York Times compelled the shutdown of a Wordle archive site.
