Toni Monkovic
Editor, The Upshot at The New York Times
An editor for the NYT's Upshot. Probably somewhere between "failing" and "world jewel."
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Jan 11, 2024 |
nzherald.co.nz | Josh Katz |Toni Monkovic
Your Wordle starter word can make a big difference to your game. Photo / Getty Images In the Upshot’s recent analysis of 515 million Wordle games played over a year, we noted that a few changes would soon be coming to WordleBot’s dictionary. As of Wednesday, those changes are now live — including a new opening word in both regular and hard mode. WordleBot plays no role in the words selected to be Wordle solutions and doesn’t know the solutions.
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