You can play 'Wordle' as a multiplayer board game soon

Source: New York Times and Hasbro

We have more Wordle news for you. The New York Times is partnering with Hasbro to bring the popular word game from the digital world to the physical one. They plan to release Wordle: The Party Game later this year. While the game online is a solitary affair, the companies want to turn it into a party game. One player will think of a five-letter word the others have to try and guess. When people make their guesses, the one who thought of the word will slide yellow and green tiles over the correct letters. You'll make your guesses with a dry-erase marker on a small dry-erase board. When a round is over, you can just wipe the board clean and start again.

Wordle: The Party Game will be launched in North America in October, with preorder kicking off on Thursday for US$19.99 (around CA$26). Shipping might start on October 1, but the game's website cautions that shipping dates are subject to change.

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'Wordle' stats can soon be linked to an NYT account

The New York Times is addressing an issue of the popular word game Wordle. It'll soon get the option to sync your stats across devices. NYT plans to offer a chance to link a free or existing NYT account to your Wordle so you can play across your devices with your stats the same. The option will reportedly be available soon. You'll have to be sure you want to link your stats to an NYT account because the move is irreversible.

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Say goodbye to the original Wordle game

There's now only one Wordle game that exists. The New York Times Games announced in a tweet that game creator Josh Wardle's website will no longer host a playable version of the megahit word-guessing game. The game will fully migrate to the New York Times page starting on June 9, 2022. NYT bought Wordle for an undisclosed seven-figure amount, promising then that the game would "initially remain free." There isn't any word yet on what changes will happen now that the switch is almost completed. If you still haven't been able to port your Wordle streak data from the old site to NYT's page, tech writer Seth Michael Larson made a tool that makes the switch easier.

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Google will help The New York Times digitize over 5 million of its archived photos

The New York Times has a big task ahead for Google. It wants the tech company to help digitize its expansive photo collection in its “morgue” (a.k.a. the basement where it keeps its photo archive). With photos dating back to the 19^th century, the morgue has a collection of between five to seven million images, along with information about when and why these were published. Google’s machine vision and AI technology will not only help them digitize the photos, but also use its object recognition tools to extract information from the images to make these easier to catalog. The tech will help them categorize semantic information that can be lifted from the images and link these to data like locations and dates.

“[It’s] a treasure trove of perishable documents,” says the NYT’s Chief Technology Officer Nick Rockwell. “A priceless chronicle of not just The Times’s history, but of nearly more than a century of global events that have shaped our modern world.”

Source: The Verge