Wordle is the pandemic sport we didn’t know we would have liked, so there’s understandably some concern that its brand-new proprietor, The New York Times, will ultimately break it one way or the other.

But as technologist Aaron Rieke brilliantly explains in a Twitter thread, there’s little probability of that — as a result of Wordle is a webpage, and webpages might be saved. You might obtain a whole copy of the sport proper now that incorporates all of the solutions, cycles to the correct new puzzle every day, and nonetheless comes with the identical “Share” button so you may share these all-important little squares with fellow gamers.

I checked actual fast on my Windows desktop, and certain sufficient, right-click > save as created a whole copy of Wordle on my desktop, identical to every other webpage I would save for offline use. I double-clicked the icon to launch it in my net browser, and it loaded at this time’s phrase.

It doesn’t retain my earlier progress, identical to the net model doesn’t preserve your streak intact once you transfer from enjoying Wordle in a desktop browser to enjoying Wordle on a telephone — however you possibly can theoretically begin constructing a brand new one if you need, and I wouldn’t be shocked if somebody figures out a method to import progress as effectively.

Where will you play Wordle subsequent? It seems like there might quickly be loads of choices along with the one The New York Times steered will “initially” be free. Because each net browser comes with directions on obtain webpages for offline use — here’s Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and Apple Safari for Mac. And whereas I haven’t tried two days in a row to see if it hundreds the subsequent phrase, it certain appears to me like the Reading List you’ll discover within the iOS copies of Chrome, Safari, and Firefox save a working offline copy of Wordle, too.

There’s an intriguing query right here over whether or not this is perhaps copyright infringement, so I’m not going to essentially suggest you do any of the above — however saving webpages for offline use is a time-honored function of all these browsers, and locations like the Internet Archive do it constantly and repeatedly for a lot of the general public net. So I anticipate that The New York Times will make it simpler on everybody and preserve Wordle free ceaselessly.