Wordle is forever broken as Twitter bot reveals tomorrow’s word to anyone who shares their score

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A programmer reverse engineered Wordle to predict words early on – and they’re already being used for twisted endings.

Wordle is a game in which users guess six times to try to select a word with five letters. Each guess reveals information about the letters of the word and their order.

Wordle was created by New York City software engineer Josh Wardle for his partner Palak Shah, who loves word games.

The two played the game for months before Mr. Wardle created the game’s website, he told the New York Times.

He first released it to the public in October, with 90 people playing on November 1. By January 2, 2022, the game had more than 300,000 players.

Software engineer Robert Richell discovered that the word every day is embedded on the page, with a total of 2,315 words to choose from.

Mr Reichel wrote: “Wordle does not make any web requests when checking your answer – everything is client-side”.

“The word of the day is not included in the page load – it is derived from the word list in some way.”

By finding the functions in the source code, Mr. Reichel was able to quickly calculate how Wordle would choose the new words.

Mr. Reichel’s work has already been used by an unknown person to program a bot that will automatically reply to Wordle users by sharing their results on social media with the word next day. “I was sent from the future to end bragging about words,” her autobiography says.

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