{"id":1468991,"date":"2022-05-09T14:44:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T18:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468991"},"modified":"2022-05-09T14:44:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T18:44:42","slug":"new-york-times-changes-wordle-answer-after-abortion-news-sparks-user-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-changes-wordle-answer-after-abortion-news-sparks-user-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Changes Wordle Answer After Abortion News, Sparks User Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-times-changes-wordle-answer-after-abortion-news-sparks-user-confusion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468991&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1237669516-e1652119269694.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>WARNING: SPOILER ALERT FOR MONDAY\u2019S WORDLE\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>On Monday, The New York Times admitted that it changed the answer of Monday\u2019s Wordle Puzzle from \u201cfetus\u201d to \u201cshine\u201d alluding to the ongoing news cycle surrounding the contentious debate over abortion. The change also confused players, who complained of two possible solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The original answer, \u201cfetus,\u201d was flagged as problematic following last week\u2019s report that the Supreme Court might soon overturn 1973\u2019s <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> decision. However, according to The Times, the original \u201cfetus\u201d answer couldn\u2019t be completely removed from its system, which resulted in some players working to uncover the first answer, and others working to uncover the second answer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/09\/crosswords\/a-note-about-todays-wordle-game.html\"><span>statement<\/span><\/a><span>, New York Times Games explained that it wants \u201cWordle to remain distinct from the news,\u201d and that \u201csome users may see an outdated answer that seems closely connected to a major recent news event.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is entirely unintentional and a coincidence \u2014 today\u2019s original answer was loaded into Wordle last year,\u201d the statement noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some of you may have a different Wordle answer than the official answer. Please refresh your browser to receive the correct answer word. For more information, please read our editor\u2019s note. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3dY5nRu7yu\">https:\/\/t.co\/3dY5nRu7yu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/1523514223317315584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cAt New York Times Games, we take our role seriously as a place to entertain and escape, and we want Wordle to remain distinct from the news,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cBut because of the current Wordle technology, it can be difficult to change words that have already been loaded into the game. When we discovered last week that this particular word would be featured today, we switched it for as many solvers as possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The statement explained that players wouldn\u2019t \u201creceive the outdated version\u201d if they have refreshed browser windows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBut we know that some people won\u2019t do that and, as a result, will be asked to solve the outdated puzzle,\u201d the statement added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/05\/02\/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473\"><span>Politico<\/span><\/a><span> first reported Justice Samuel Alito\u2019s early draft opinion which indicated <em>Roe vs. Wade<\/em> could likely be struck down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision \u2014 <\/span><i><span>Planned Parenthood v. Casey<\/span><\/i><span> \u2014 that largely maintained the right,\u201d Politico reported.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><i><span>Roe<\/span><\/i><span> was egregiously wrong from the start,\u201d Alito reportedly wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Ian Haworth is a writer for The Daily Wire and contributor to Morning Wire. Follow him on <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\"><i><span>Twitter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>, <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ighaworth\"><i><span>Facebook<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>, and <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/IanGHaworth\"><i><span>YouTube<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WARNING: SPOILER ALERT FOR MONDAY\u2019S WORDLE\u2026On Monday, The New York Times admitted that it changed the answer of Monday\u2019s Wordle Puzzle from \u201cfetus\u201d to \u201cshine\u201d alluding to the ongoing news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":1482136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}