How to repair your NY Times-based Wordle if it isn’t working

As a reasonably enthusiastic — if not very professional — Wordle participant, I wasn’t thrilled with the concept that The New York Times was including the phrase sport to its quiver. But I understood why the Times would need it, and why the sport’s creator would wish to not should cope with its sudden recognition. So I heaved a sigh, and ready to proceed to play on the brand new website.

The day got here: I clicked on the acquainted powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle URL and noticed www.nytimes.com/video games/wordle/index.html within the deal with subject. I mentally shrugged, and ready for my morning battle with the English language.

And — nothing.

A clean display screen. No 404 discover, no “your internet connection is loused up” message — and particularly, no Wordle. Just a clean display screen.

Frustrated, however unwilling to spend an excessive amount of time attempting to determine it out, I removed the tab and tried once more. No luck.

Was Wordle someway down? No — I used to be capable of entry it on my Pixel 6 telephone, on an incognito browser, and on Safari (which I rarely use). And no person else right here at The Verge gave the impression to be complaining. So I put it all the way down to a glitch, and performed on my telephone as a substitute.

But for the subsequent couple of days, the identical factor saved occurring. It was as if the fates — or possibly The Verge’s IT division — had decreed that I shouldn’t be enjoying phrase video games on my work pc. But this pc was the place my earlier Wordle statistics, as pitiful as they had been, had been saved. I used to be in despair.

Until I lastly rose from my despondency, took a deep breath, and began trying to find an answer. And lastly found it in Reddit.

It turned out I wasn’t the one one. There had been others who had been discovering that they all of the sudden couldn’t entry their morning Wordle repair. The downside?

They had been New York Times subscribers.

It seems that, for no less than a number of of us who truly subscribe to the Times, Wordle has a difficulty with the cookies that the newspaper leaves on our browser. (And it’s not simply Chrome — there have been complaints from individuals utilizing Firefox and Safari.) The answer was to eliminate all of the cookies the Times left in your browser.

In case you’ve additionally been experiencing this irritating downside, right here’s how to try this in Chrome. (If you employ a distinct browser, it is best to have the ability to discover the answer by doing a fast search.)

• Click on the three dots within the higher proper nook
• Go to Settings > Security and Privacy > Cookies and different website information > See all cookies and website information
• In the higher proper will likely be a search subject. Type in “nytimes”
• Click on “Remove All Shown”

That ought to do it. It did it for me — after that, I went to the powerlanguage URL, clicked it, and located myself at my acquainted Wordle website (albeit with the brand new NY Times deal with), together with my stats.

And as soon as once more, I can begin my mornings having fun with espresso, toast, and Wordle. Well, kind of having fun with — I haven’t been capable of resolve the sport in lower than 4 strains for a few week now…