Jackie O Henderson drops major Wordle hack: ‘Thank me later’
The Sydney radio host has directed Wordle users to a website which gives away every single puzzle up until 2027, saying “Thank me later”.
It’s the game taking over the world, and Jackie ‘O’ Henderson may have just killed the direct appeal with Wordle.
A quick rundown for those who aren’t up to speed, Wordle was first released in October and just months later is played by millions of people.
The web-based word game gives players six attempts to guess a five-letter word, with one new puzzle to crack each day.
After some internet sleuthing by the Sydney-based KIIS FM co-host, Henderson has found a website which uncovers every single word up until 2027.
“Just Google, ‘Here lies Wordle’. Thank me later,” Henderson said in a TikTok video on the Kyle and Jackie O official page.
Lo and behold, after Googling those three words we discovered the blog post written by someone going by the name Owen Yin. It is a 54-minute long read, which unveils every single word up until October 20, 2027.
Much to the inevitable dismay of New York developer and engineer Josh Wardle, Owen Yin has managed to crack the backdoor codes which seemingly, would render playing useless.
Owen writes: “Wordle will end on October 20 2027. On that day, the remaining players will try to guess the very last word of the game’s 2,315 five-letter wordlist. All 2,315 words are stored right in your browser when you play a game. When you connect to the site, you download a nifty script that figures out what day it is on your device and shows you the correct puzzle.
“The script stores all the allowed words you can guess plus the answer to every puzzle, past, present, and future. So if you’re the kind of person who skips to the end of the book to see what happens, reads all the movie spoilers, and generally hates waiting, you’ll like this: here’s every possible solution to Wordle for the next 2,100 days or so.”
It comes after Twitter suspended a bot account in January for spoiling the solution to the next day’s Wordle. The Twitter profile @wordlinator trolled users on the social media site by incessantly posting the answer.
“The account referenced was suspended for violating the Twitter Rules and the Automation Rules around sending unsolicited @mentions,” a Twitter spokesperson told AFP at the time.
The bot account had been automatically responding to accounts posting their scores on Wordle, which read: “Guess what. People don’t care about your mediocre linguistic escapades. To teach you a lesson, tomorrow’s word is …”.
Thankfully for Mr Wardle, The New York Times Company purchased the game for an undisclosed seven-figure sum in January, with Wordle moving to their website in February.
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