An avid photographer, Marc likes nothing better than taking pictures of very small things (bugs, his daughters) or very big things (distant galaxies). When he gets time, he also enjoys gaming (console and mobile), cycling and attempting to watch as much sport as any human can. He also spent years on a music magazine, where his duties mainly involved spoiling other people’s fun, and on a car magazine.
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He previously edited the tech website Stuff and has tested and written about phones, tablets, wearables, streaming boxes, smart home devices, Bluetooth speakers, headphones, games, TVs, cameras and much more. Well, unless I lose my streak, maybe, and then we'll see.Īs Editor in Chief (U.K.) on Tom’s Guide, Marc oversees all gaming, streaming, audio, TV, entertainment, how-to and cameras coverage, and is also responsible for the site’s U.K.-focused output. But whatever happens, I'll definitely keep playing daily. So there you go, five ways the NYT could improve Wordle without destroying what made it so special. On Hard Mode I'd have had to blindly guess in the hope I picked the right word that's luck.īy all means leave Hard Mode as it is, but how about introducing a new Extra-Hard Mode, which gives you a time limit to complete the game? Or one that reduces your guesses to five? Or that always keeps one letter hidden? There are, I'm sure, plenty of other options that would still give everyone the same word to find. To take an example such as the infamous 'WATCH' game (#265, above) I was able to play PLUMB on the third guess, ruling out PATCH, LATCH, MATCH and BATCH in one go. But mainly it just makes it more about luck. In that sense, it does indeed make the game harder. This means you can't use a 'throwaway' guess to narrow things down for a difficult word. That's not because I'm scared of it (though I don't deny that I'm merely an average player), but simply because it changes the gameplay in what I consider to be a negative way.Īs it stands, Hard Mode works by forcing you to play letters that are already green or yellow in subsequent guesses. Wordle's Hard Mode, as I've made clear a couple of times, doesn't really do it for me.
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Presumably it could implement a free tier, so you could still log in on multiple devices and know that your streak was always safe. Wordle is now part of NYT Games, and NYT has a login system so you can use WordleBot and play other games, such as Spelling Bee. This surely can't be that difficult to fix. And it will also be an issue if and when I replace my wonderful Google Pixel 6 with another phone - because Wordle stats can't officially be transferred across devices.
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But on a couple of occasions, I've skipped the phone part and gone straight to the laptop, and as a result my phone streak and stats are different from those on my laptop.įortunately, I've played every day on the laptop, so my full streak is captured - but if I'd forgotten a game there too, or had a day off work sometime, it would be an unmitigated disaster. This annoys me greatly, and it all stems from the fact that Wordle isn't currently clever enough to handle anyone playing on multiple devices.Īdmittedly, I may not be a typical Wordler: I usually complete the game first on my phone, then switch to my laptop and play it again so I can take screenshots and write my today's Wordle answer column for Tom's Guide. My Wordle streak is currently 53, but it's also currently 165.