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immibis
according to this tweet: https://twitter.com/vogon/status/1488347984685240324

Wordle is only 63 kilobytes.

I wonder how many of these are a megabyte or more due to bloat.

labster
Don’t worry, I’m sure NYT will have it up to a proper 10 MiB in a month. They need metrics so that they can improve the UX, and of course trackers so that your ads can be personalized to the ads you like to see. It will be enterprise scale Wordle in no time.
Bud
Any evidence for thinking this?

NYT has never done this with its crossword, for instance. Their crossword pages are actually entirely free of ads of any kind.

They monetized it by selling subscriptions, instead.

immibis
So the pages are full of systems to check your subscription and track your usage?
julianwachholz
It's ~64kb compressed but if you disable your ad blocker it doubles instantly and possibly more since it includes Google Tag Manager.

Quite proud about my variant word.rodeo which is only ~33 kB (108 kB uncompressed) or 0 kB because it also works offline.

einpoklum
Hey, I didn't know about this game! It's very useful to practice your English vocabulary.

Particularly challenging to make initial guesses which cover as many of the common letters and vowels as you can. BAYOU covers three vowels and a semi-vowel... or maybe AEGIS.

stefandesu
I've been doing a Japanese Wordle for the past few days and enjoy it very much! There's three of them, but the first two in the list have 5 characters which I thought was extremely difficult. The last one (言葉で遊ぼう[0]) has only 4 characters, and since there are (I feel like) many more common words with 4 characters, it instantly became much easier for me and I was able to solve all of them so far. (You do get 12 tries as well since there are way more characters than in the Latin alphabet.)

[0]: https://taximanli.github.io/kotobaasobou/

shusaku
Wow that was tough. I was six rows in before I got a single box. And it really rubbed it in with the answer…
stefandesu
I hadn't done today's and it was definitely tough. 12/12 for me, but at least I got it. I felt stupid when I figured it out though.
froza
I made one more in Polish: https://zgadnij.to/
is0tope
Very cool. My polish spelling is pretty bad these days but somehow got NIEMY in 3 which I wasn't even sure is a word (turns out it means mute).
skocznymroczny
Yeah, a fun fact is that the Polish word for Germany (Niemcy) is derived from this. Basically Slavic people couldn't communicate with them, so they were called "mute people" because they didn't speak (our languages).
is0tope
Nice, I wasn't aware of that. I always thought "mute" was "niemowny".