Wordle's old home at powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/ now redirects to nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html, its perch after the Old Gray Lady bought the New Gray Game. The design is a little different—the "Wordle" logo is now set in Karnak, a typeface distinctive to the Times—and the daily game's fixed word list got an edit run too.
Removed from future games are agora, fibre, lynch, pupal, slave and wench, each word suggesting its own little universe of anxieties, ranging from the obvious to "Times Brain" concerns inexplicable to normal humans.
Removed from the list of accepted guesses are b-list racist slurs such as darky, gooks, spics, and coons, and terms often used as slurs such as sluts, whore and bitch—if nothing else, these revisions are more understandable than deleting "pupal" and "agora".
"Pussy" is gone, too, sadly. It's fun to imagine nervous decisionmakers gathered, troubled by the potential scandal of the word pussy, finally making the decision to delete it from the list.
