{"id":4696,"date":"2022-05-09T16:05:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T14:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/ny-times-changed-monday-wordle-answer-due-to-major-recent-news-event\/"},"modified":"2022-05-09T16:05:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T14:05:07","slug":"ny-times-changed-monday-wordle-answer-due-to-major-recent-news-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/ny-times-changed-monday-wordle-answer-due-to-major-recent-news-event\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times changed Monday Wordle answer due to “major recent news event”"},"content":{"rendered":"
NY Times changed Monday Wordle answer due to “major recent news event”<\/div>\n
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The New York Times has altered the solution to Monday’s Wordle<\/em> puzzle, citing close connections to “a major recent news event.” The Times posted about the change on its games section<\/a>, explaining why some Wordle<\/em> players may have a different solution than their friends, family, or colleagues. <\/p>\n

The Times called today’s pulled solution word “entirely unintentional and a coincidence — today’s original answer was loaded into Wordle<\/em> last year.” <\/p>\n

[Ed. note:<\/strong> Spoilers for Wordle<\/em>\u2019s answer for Monday, May 9.]<\/p>\n

Some Wordle<\/em> players were served a puzzle on Monday with the word “fetus” as its answer. Others received a different five-letter word. But the word fetus is obviously and visibly part of a major news event, the possible overturning of Roe v. Wade<\/a>, a legal precedent that if reversed would make abortion immediately illegal in more than 20 states in the U.S.<\/p>\n

The New York Times Games team said early Monday that “we take our role seriously as a place to entertain and escape, and we want Wordle<\/em> to remain distinct from the news.”<\/p>\n