Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

[CellarDweller]

I didn't know there was a strike going on. What is it about?

So who are making the (original) games now? Scabs?

I usually support strikes, but I want to know what it's about.

Hello Sonja,

I hadn't heard about the strike either, I found this online.


The New York Times Tech Guild asked the publication's readers not to play its games, including Wordle and Connections, in solidarity when it announced that it was going on strike on November 4. Now, the guild has released its own versions of the The Times' games so that readers can still play without crossing its digital picket line. Of course, the workers' versions won't be able to keep your Wordle streak running, but they're pretty much the same games you've been playing on the publication's website.

The guild is made up of over 600 unionized tech workers that include software engineers, product managers, data analysts and designers ? the people behind the publication's games, as well as The Times' Cooking app. In the guild's GoFundMe for the strike, it said it's been bargaining for its first contract over the past two years, but the The Times' management "dragged its feet" and even allegedly committed unfair labor practices by implementing return-to-office mandates without bargaining and trying to intimidate members who were going on strike.


https://www.engadget.com/general/nyt-tech-workers-on-strike-made-their-own-versions-of-wordle-and-connections-130047922.html

[southendmd]

Here is the link to their "strike version" games:  https://nytimesguild.org/tech/guild-builds/

[southendmd]

I couldn't get Strikle to work, but here is connections:

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[serious crayons]

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I couldn't get Strikle to work, either.

And Connections: Strike Edition was OK, but not quite as finely calibrated as regular Connections. I had to google to see what they meant by Steph. Apparently, there's a baseball player named Steph Curry.

I hope they settle quickly!

[Sason]

Thanks Chuck.

What does it mean to bargain for a contract in this context?

[Sason]

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The yellow was the only one I actually solved, green and blue were pure and lucky guesses.

Did y'all notice at the bottom of the site you can listen to the creator of the puzzle playing the piano? 

[Sason]

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Several games on that site, one is called Match Strike and is like Memory.

I got this result, don't know what it actually means.

[Sason]

Here is the link to their "strike version" games:  https://nytimesguild.org/tech/guild-builds/

Several interesting things on that site.

Among others there are "Trivia and jokes", with strike related questions where one of four answers is correct.

Further down there are strike related recipes! 

And even further down there are strike chants, one of which is "A union, united, will never be defeated!". That must surely be an American take on "?El Pueblo Unido Jam?s Ser? Vencido!" (a united people will never be defeated), which was originally a song to support the government of the socialist and democratically elected president Allende in Chile. After the military coup on the 11 sept 1973 (in which America played a not small part) the song was used by the resistance against the brutal regime. It's a famous song, and well known internationally. Or at least it was back then.

https://tinyurl.com/2wy6zbsp


Haha, that line in the strike chants evoked some powerful memories from my very red teenage years! 

[Front-Ranger]

Oh, that is very interesting, Sonja!!