{"id":182813,"date":"2022-02-02T11:47:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T10:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=182813"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:57:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:57:44","slug":"how-to-download-wordle-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-download-wordle-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"How to download Wordle for free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After hearing that the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordle-cravotta.en.softonic.com\/articles\/new-york-times-buys-wordle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Times recently bought Wordle<\/a>, many of us live in trepidation of what the online news agency might do with it. We\u2019ve all been loving this word puzzle game so much, we really don\u2019t want to see it hidden behind the subscription paywall. However, it seems there is a rather clever way of<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wordle.en.softonic.com\/web-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>downloading Wordle<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u2019s current browser version<\/strong> on your PC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aaron Rieke, a technologist that did some exploring, explained on Twitter that you can simply <strong>save the webpage<\/strong> on your computer like you would with any other page. When you do so, it includes all the magic coding that Josh Wardle created for Wordle. The words will refresh daily, while the solution is also hidden within the programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All you need to do is <strong>access the saved folder, crack open the HTML page<\/strong>, and you can play Wordle to your heart\u2019s desire. It even works if the <strong>internet is disconnected<\/strong>. However, we\u2019re not sure how the New York Times will feel about this approach, and there may even be future licensing issues involved. For now, you can go ahead and see if it works for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only downfall is that you can\u2019t <strong>transfer your saved progress<\/strong>. You\u2019ll need to start over with your offline Wordle version until someone comes along with a way to move your previous profile. Of course, the NYT may update the word puzzle game into something new and fantastic, making all of this unnecessary. But that\u2019s a story for another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After hearing that the New York Times recently bought Wordle, many of us live in trepidation of what the online news agency might do with it. We\u2019ve all been loving this word puzzle game so much, we really don\u2019t want to see it hidden behind the subscription paywall. However, it seems there is a rather &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-download-wordle-for-free\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to download Wordle for free&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9205,"featured_media":182815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[2441],"tags":[3264],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-182813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwordle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324460,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182813\/revisions\/324460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182813"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=182813"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=182813"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=182813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}