Wordle meets Clippy in this new word game
Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories.Like many of us, Sam Rosenthal plays games like Wordle every day, chasing after good scores and sharing the results with friends and family. But he’s also a game designer, the creative director at Blaseball developer The Game Band, and so this regular habit got him thinking about what else could be done in the space. “When I was a kid and I played word games with my family, they weren’t the New York Times puzzle games,” Rosenthal explains.
- ▪Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories.Like many of us, Sam Rosenthal plays games like Wordle every day, chasing after good scores and sharing the results with friends and family.
- ▪But he’s also a game designer, the creative director at Blaseball developer The Game Band, and so this regular habit got him thinking about what else could be done in the space.
- ▪“When I was a kid and I played word games with my family, they weren’t the New York Times puzzle games,” Rosenthal explains.
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| Original publisher | The Verge |
| Canonical URL | https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/981014/dartwords-clippy-word-game |
| Publication time | 2026-08-17T15:03:41-04:00 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-17T19:10:00.273Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-17T19:10:00.273Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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