It was, in a way, ironic. Wordle was born from a husband’s desire to make something fun for his partner. And I managed to use the better part of half an hour this week to cause great consternation for my own. It doesn’t matter if it was done unintentionally.
Then consider this a cautionary tale.
Shannon Nickinson is still married to her husband despite his Wordle Whoopsie. Phil Nickinson/Digital Trends
On Friday morning, after solving the daily puzzle on my third try, I noticed something. There was a redesigned post-game screen, with a new option that apparently appeared in the last week or so. Now I could choose to back up my Wordle stats through my New York Times account. “That’s a pretty good idea,” I said to myself in the pre-dawn darkness, since storing such things in a browser-based cookie isn’t all that robust. Limits you to one device so you don’t lose your stats and your streak. This means that if you delete your cookies – which is something I like to do with my web browsers quite regularly – you’re starting from scratch again.
So I decided to balance things out and hit the gym, relatively pleased to be this productive on a Friday morning.
After 45 minutes of weights and another 30 minutes on the elliptical, I returned home. My wife wasn’t far behind after walking the dog, so she grabbed her phone to get her Wordle fix for the day.
Only, it looked like she already did. There was no new puzzle to solve. Understandably confused, she asked if I had done it and if I had the words she saw on the screen. And as soon as that question left her perfect mouth, I felt that feeling that husbands get from time to time. When you know you screwed up something innocent and there’s nothing you can do to fix it.
an issue? She was logged into my New York Times account on her phone. So when she went to do Wordle, it pulled that sync data from my NYT account.
I’ve done good bad, as they say. The question was how to fix it. It will require a few more cups of coffee though, which is a must to get things done before 7am. But it turns out that once you sync Wordle with your NYT account, there’s no going back. Consider yourself warned.
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Even if there was no way to make it right for today, that doesn’t mean I had no way to make it better tomorrow. The question was how to unlink her phone from my NYT account and thus restore her Wordle to its pre-sync status. And then I would have to figure out how to restore access to the document.
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The first part was easy. Sign out of my account in her New York Times app. I also deleted the cookies from her browser, for good measure. (Yes, I knew what that would do, but better to be safe.)
Since then, I needed to upgrade my New York Times subscription from “Basic” to “Full Access.” The latter comes with a “Bonus Subscription” feature that lets you share it with one more person, along with access to New York Times crossword puzzles and other games, and an excellent cooking section. Considering that my wife has been a bonus to my life in so many ways, this all made perfect sense.
That’s how Friday’s Wordle was destroyed. But now he has his own NYT subscription. He has a fresh start with Wordle. And as an added bonus, he says he’ll keep me around for at least another 18 years.
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