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What do AXIOM, BAYOU, FJORD, KAYAK, PARER and ZESTY all have in common?
They’ve all beenWordlewords, of course, appearing at some point during the game’s first 1,000-and-a-bit days.
What are we going to do then?
That’s a fair concern, and Bennett had several ideas for how to solve it.
“Yes, there are only 2300+ words left in the database,” Bennett explained.
“I am still adding words, though.
That means the game could end sometime in November 2027.
We could throw everything back in the pot and mix it up,” she said.
“Another thing we could do is maybe allow plurals.
Wouldn’t that be interesting?
So there are some options.”
The case against plurals and past tenses
Let’s take each of those in turn.
That therefore seems like the best option.
Plurals, on the other hand, would be stupid.
But it doesn’t include plurals that end in S or ES.
There’d be a similar problem if past tenses were included.
Proper nouns for the win!
There are other options, of course for instance, including proper nouns could be fun.
Another is to make it more difficult.
Or big change Wordle could restart with six-letter words instead.
That would really complicate things and keep it fresh.
Or do four-letter words but make you play in Hard Mode the entire time.
There are plenty of options.
