Wordle now requires a New York Times account to view your stats (2024)
The days of precariously storing your Wordle history in your browser's cache are over: You now need a free New York Times account to see your stats.
I know this because I am one of the holdouts who never connected their Wordle history to an account. Since the start, my Wordle record has been tied to the Chrome profile I use for work. (Please don't make me explain why it's my work profile.)
However, when I finished today's Wordle—the 1,000th Wordle puzzle—the bar graph of my guess distribution that I've been seeing for years was absent. In its place was an invitation to see my stats by making a free New York Times account. NYT purchased Wordle from creator Josh Wardle in 2022. (Yes, the Wordle guy is named Wardle.)
In a 2022 GDC talk, Wardle attributed Wordle's success in part to players sharing results on social media, and said that he didn't actually invent the idea: he turned the emoji block recaps into an automated feature after he saw a player doing it manually. That sharability, along with it being free and requiring no account creation, led to Wordle's viral spread. (Fun fact: The first place it blew up was New Zealand.)
Wordle can still be played without an account, but if you want a readout of your stats, making a New York Times account is now mandatory—I couldn't find a way around it, and other players on social media are reporting the same thing.
The New York Times is perhaps getting more serious about converting Wordle's enduring popularity into income—the paper recently targeted nearly 2,000 Wordle-like games with DMCA notices.
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Your Wordle progress and statistics will automatically link to your New York Times account. Confirm you are logged into your New York Times account or signed in with an existing New York Times account to save your statistics. After you complete a Wordle puzzle your stats appear on the Thank you for playing today! page.
Wordle answers. The days of precariously storing your Wordle history in your browser's cache are over: You now need a free New York Times account to see your stats.
New York Times now requires login to see Wordle stats | Hacker News. More big name "news" sites are requiring logins new because 3rd party cookies are going away. If you login, however, the company has the right to track you because you agreed by signing-up.
Your Wordle streak is tied to your browser history. If you delete your history, your streak will be reset. If you added a home screen bookmark for Wordle, you'll need to delete it first.
Download NYT Games to Keep Your Wordle Streak Safe
With the app, you can create an account and log in on any device, including your PC. This will allow you to keep access to your Wordle streak wherever you go.
Your Wordle progress and statistics will automatically link to your New York Times account. Confirm you are logged into your New York Times account or signed in with an existing New York Times account to save your statistics.
There is much speculation that one reason for its decline is because the New York Times bought the game. Many players were concerned that the game would become drastically different after the shift, but Wordle has not become harder or experienced any change in its gameplay. A second reason is knockoffs.
You can now use WordleBot anywhere, on any browser or device, as long as you're logged in to your Times account. Wordle remains free to all, but WordleBot is for Times Games, News or All Access subscribers only. (You can subscribe to The Times here.)
While breaking a long streak can be disheartening and frustrating — the current longest streak is 968 days, held by multiple people in Hoquiam, Washington and Willowbrook, Illinois — it's an inevitability. This is part of the game, too, said Mason. “It wakes you up.”
If you activate it while on the Wordle page, you'll have the option to save the current game. You can save only once per day. You access your saved games by clicking on the right-hand tab. Use the left and right arrows to navigate saved games forward or backward in time.
Transferring between devices/browsers on nytimes.com
Bookmark Copy Wordle Stats by right clicking and choosing bookmark link or dragging into your bookmark bar on the device you want to transfer your stats from. There is an article detailing alternate ways of adding a bookmarklet to your browser for safari.
Wordle keeps track of how many times you've played, what percentage of games you've won, along with your current streak. If you miss one, that streak is reset to zero, which can be a pretty big blow if you're gone for weeks or even months without missing a single word. So, I get it.
The solution was to get rid of all the cookies the Times left on your browser. In case you've also been experiencing this frustrating problem, here's how to do that in Chrome. (If you use a different browser, you should be able to find the solution by doing a quick search.) That should do it.
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