Wade, a 50-year-old legal judgement that enshrines a woman's right to an abortion. It's clear, however, this relates to the US Supreme Court's recently-leaked and highly-controversial plans to roll back Roe vs. The blog post does not name the word itself, or explain the 'major recent news event' which the change has come in reaction to.
Pre-empting questions and headlines surrounding the change, the New York Times today published a blog post highlighting its decision to remove the word, and explaining why those who do not update their browser windows will still see it. The removed word is 'fetus' - though anyone with a recently-updated word list will see a replacement answer. This means some players will still see the removed word today.Įurogamer Newscast: Will Square Enix be bought, and is Ubisoft next? However, the New York Times is unable to affect Wordle's list of upcoming answers (all pre-programmed into the game months in advance) if you do not refresh your browser window. The New York Times has decided to remove today's intended Wordle answer, in case players thought its appearance was an attempt by the newspaper to reference a 'major recent news event'.