Wordle aborts ‘fetus’ as possible answer amid Roe vs. Wade fight

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Wordle removed “fetus” as Monday’s answer amid the controversy surrounding the leak of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade draft opinion.

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“We take our role seriously as a place to entertain and escape, and we want Wordle to remain distinct from the news,” the New York Times wrote on its site about Monday’s puzzle.

“This is entirely unintentional and a coincidence — today’s original answer was loaded into Wordle last year,” explained the newspaper, which acquired the game earlier this year from software engineer Josh Wardle.

“Because of the current Wordle technology, it can be difficult to change words that have already been loaded into the game.”

However, “fetus” could not be discarded for all players.

“When we discovered last week that this particular word would be featured today, we switched it for as many solvers as possible.”

So if you play the addictive word game but have yet to submit a guess, you may want to try and make “fetus” your first guess.