Discovered this the other day. It’s a bit silly. Thought some others here might appreciate it.
What could TW learn?!
That was fun. I got all the way through it, but got burned by the site. 
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You did? I gave up after hitting “
Your password must include today’s Wordle answer.”
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I do the Wordle every day on waking up, so that was fine. I also did the CAPTCHA, the roman numeral product, the best chess move in this position, the country where this street view was taken, the emoji for the current phase of the moon, and – get this – the rule that said the atomic numbers for all the elements in the puzzle must sum to 200! Somehow I had a tool that let me look those up easily! 
When you get the first nineteen rules, the 20th says, “Oh no, your password is on fire! Better put it out quickly,” and then one by one every character in the password is replaced by a fire emoji. Fun.
The phase of the moon rule made me remember my answer on a just-for-silliness repository when someone (jokingly) posted an issue saying the tool didn’t work:
I’m sorry, we need slightly more information before we can act on this issue. Can you please supply the following?:
- the version used
- the operating system it’s running under
- the browser name and version number used for testing
- any plug-ins installed on said browser
- operating system patch levels
- the sequence of commands used to install the software
- the date and time (with time zone) when the software failed
- a stack trace of the installs for the software, the browser, and the operating system
- an annotated core dump
- the phase of the moon at the moment the software was installed
- your middle name
- the colour of your eyes
- whether you had eggs for breakfast on the day this first failed
- the age of your first-born child. (If childless, please provide the date on which you expect your first child to be born. [If you’re not ever expecting to have kids, don’t you have bigger issues than a silly software problem?])
- the three people you would choose to have with you if stranded on a desert isle
- the colour of that damned dress
- the age you were the last time you ate Ramen noodles
- your favorite depressing Russian novelist
- political affiliation (this is entirely voluntary; and your answer won’t affect the level of service you receive… unless you support that idiot on the other side!)
- full name of your high school biology teacher
- left and right femur lengths in millimeters
- the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow
- a full accounting of you whereabouts and movements on the night that JR was shot
- the name of that band that your ex really liked but you couldn’t stand
- bank balance, in pesos
- with or without nuts
- your analysis on the place of Derrida in modern literary theory
- nearest neighbor… no not that one, the cute one
- favorite pizza toppings
… and then we’ll be right on it.
Fantastic! Between that and the active Wordle streak, you had a leg up.
I used to enjoy doing the daily Wordle, but when the NYT transition finally killed my streak, and they started moving toward having us pay for games, I walked away. I loved that the single daily puzzle format was the most self-limiting gaming addiction around, though!
Hmm, I’ve been paying for NYT games for a while, doing the Spelling Bee, but I thought Wordle was being kept free. It’s a real bummer if they reneged on that.
it was amazing. I absolutely loved that model, and the story that went with the game. I was very sad when it was sold to NYT, although I cheered for the developer who managed to make a sizable payday by lovingly crafting the puzzle for his partner and then sharing the result with the world for free, with no strings attached.