Wordle is reintroducing previously used answers, ending a long-standing rule and annoying players who thought they were safe forever.

That number was whittled down to 2,309 by the NYT after it bought Wordle in January 2022, and then increased by an unknown amount over the next couple of years, with the addition of solutions such as SNAFU (game #659) and OOMPH (#1662).