How to keep playing Wordle for FREE: Essential trick Wordle fans need to know

This week Wordle fans were greeted with the surprise news that the hit online word game has been bought by US publishing giant The New York Times. The iconic American newspaper will take over the running of Wordle going forward, with Wordle initially remaining free to play – as it has been since it launched back in October. However, question marks remain whether Wordle will continue being a free game further along into the future under its new stewardship.

Thankfully, there are a few little tricks you can try out right now which will ensure you continue having access to Wordle for free.

This was revealed by Twitter user Aaron Rieke, the managing director of technology equity and justice firm Upturn.

Rieke revealed there are a few ways you can continue playing Wordle for free, no matter what happens in the future.

As Wordle runs entirely in a web browser, and there are thousands of challenges in the code, you could save a copy of the webpage to your computer, unplug it from the internet and then play Wordle for “years”.

Alternatively, you head to The Way Back Machine website for Wordle.

Rieke says the Internet Archives version of Wordle should work for a “long time”.

Interestingly, no matter what “mirror” site you use to access Wordle users will still be playing the same version as one another.

Rieke explained: “Here’s something lovely:

“We’ll all be able to play OG Wordle *together* for years to come. And it will be easy to do.

“Wordle is a tiny game that runs entirely in the browser.

“The daily words are right there in the code, in a giant list. There are thousands of them.

“So you could save copy of the website right now, *unplug your computer from the internet,* and play Wordle every day for years.

“For example, here’s the Internet Archive’s versions, which will work for a long time.

“Here’s the really cool part: Even if we all played on different “mirror” sites, we’d still be playing the same words at the same time.

“We’d continue to share the same experience. We’d even accrue our own stats (on a per-site basis).

“This isn’t hacky, it’s just the web. What a neat gift from @powerlanguish.

“Wordle is so durable because it was never designed to be proprietary. It “trusts” its users, which most software programs, even games, don’t do. (It’d be easy to cheat weeks ahead, but why would you?)”.

This little trick has been revealed after news broke that The New York Times would initially keep Wordle for free following the acquisition.

This led to the #keepwordlefree hashtag appearing on Twitter, with fans of the hit word game calling on its new owners not to lock it behind a paywall.

Wordle, which was only launched last October, has quickly amassed millions of players in the space of just a few months.

One of the great things about Wordle is how it encourages players to share on social media how quickly they’ve solved one of the daily challenges.

You’ve probably seen posts about Wordle filling up your social media feeds in the past few weeks, but may be unsure how it works.

The hugely popular word game tasks players with figuring out a five letter word in six guesses.

Players enter their predictions for the word in a five character grid, with letters in correct places showing up green, letters that are in the word – but the wrong position – showing up as gold, and letters not in the word grey.

After (hopefully) correctly guessing the answer players can share a colourful grid on social media which shows how quickly they got the answer right – without giving the correct answer away.