Fun hater makes bot spoil futuristic Wordle puzzles, get hung up

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One of the fun parts about Wordle daily puzzle game is discreetly sharing your results with your friends. I don’t bother too much with the sharing part myself, but I quietly enjoyed comparing my vocabulary victories to other people on my Twitter timeline. Apparently, not everyone like me enjoys it, because an unknown person decided to create a bot on Twitter spoiling the next day’s answer.

It started when software engineer Robert Reichel successfully reverse-engineered game code earlier this month, which can be used to reveal what the next day’s word will be. He shared his process in a very interesting blog post, along with the method others can replicate. Unfortunately, the accidental curiosity that inspired Reichel to reverse-engineer the code gave a programmer the last of the tools to do mischief.

Note: If you like tweeting your wordIe results, someone made a bot that you should block because it responds automatically with tomorrow’s answer pic.twitter.com/u62kBaTivnJan January 24, 2022

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The Twitter bot The Wordlinator surfaced earlier this week, claiming that his bio was “sent from the future to end Wordle’s bragging.” Anyone who has shared their results will automatically reply, chewing them up for “bragging” before spoiling the next day’s answer (thanks, Kotaku.)

The bot – whose creator I’m sure is very interesting and cool – has now been commented on by Twitter. It appears to have already been hung a few times in its short life, but this one appears to have been hung. I wouldn’t be surprised if more bots like this pop up in the future, so keep an eye out if you’re one of the most active people in Wordle. If you’re concerned about an annoying spoiler bot slipping into your responses, consider turning your results into Townscaper projects instead.

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