Is your Wordle streak still going?

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When I first heard about Wordle, the free and pure daily word-guessing game from Josh Wardle, I enjoyed it enough to write an article about it on this site. But I thought that would probably be the end of it. I figured it’d come and go for a lot of us — that our attention would shift to the next collective time-waster as new players stepped up to see what the fuss was about. The self-sustaining cycle would continue… for a while at least.

While I’m sure that’s true for plenty of people, I’m not one of them. I’m ~hooked~.

A month after discovering Wordle, I am still very much invested in this nifty little browser-based puzzle game. Part of that is on the aforementioned support system, whose members can’t help but compare and contrast our different word-deducing habits, and part of that is on the scorecard. Every day, the stakes feel a little higher. It’s like how your Report Card in elementary school felt like this mystical, earth-shatteringly serious file.

Who’s going to be the last one standing in my Wordle group with a streak? Almost certainly not me. But I’m fighting for it.

I’ve had three truly close calls so far with last-ditch, exasperated guesses, including a recent near-botch with “KNOLL.” For now, though, I’m somehow hanging in there.

Admittedly, I don’t play Wordle on Hard mode — the laxer default rules are fine, thanks — and I also don’t try and min-max it to death. Nothing against the folks who have whittled down a shortlist of the most effective first guesses, of course. It’s just not me!

In this laid-back approach, I end up guessing whatever feels right at the moment, often put myself into an avoidable jam, then struggle for an embarrassingly long time to work my way back out. It’s not everyone’s playstyle,