How to Hack Wordle

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Wordle lives in The New York Times Company’s NYT Games app, past 10 million downloads on Google Play. There’s nothing to edit: the game loads each day’s answer from the server as a small JSON file. So CheatDroid’s capture does the work here. It records a request from the app, and Edit & replay sends it again to the address of that file, with whichever date you like. Puzzle No. 1960 took me one guess.

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1. 1

   Open NYT Games in CheatDroid, tap Traffic and then Start capture. The app restarts. Scroll down on its sign-up sheet, tap Play without an account, and go back to CheatDroid. Tap the search icon and type active.json. Any of those rows will do.

   

2. 2

   Open a row and tap the round arrow at the top right, Edit & replay. Replace the URL with https://www.nytimes.com/svc/wordle/v2/2026-10-31.json, using the date you want, and tap the send arrow.

   

3. 3

   Back in the list, search for svc/wordle. Your replay is a new row. Open it.

   

4. 4

   Type solution into Find in body. CheatDroid jumps to it, and that’s the answer.

   

5. 5

   Tap Stop capture and force stop NYT Games before you play. Wordle runs in a WebView, which refuses CheatDroid’s certificate, so during a capture the page comes up without its styling. Then open Wordle and type the word.

   

What else I found

• Tomorrow’s date works as well, so the word is there before the puzzle goes up.
• Connections and Strands answer the same way, at svc/connections/v2/ and svc/strands/v2/.
• Without an account your result goes to no leaderboard. With one it counts on your friends’ board, so don’t.
• Needs CheatDroid 4.2.2 or newer. Capture and replay are free.
• Tested on NYT Games 6.48.0.

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