Wordle Fan Recounts Hilarious Story of Trying to Teach Their Father How to Play the Game
Even the most difficult quick-twitch From Software boss or harrowing Team Cherry endgame gauntlet still can't hold a candle to the most difficult gaming experience faced by many players, teaching a game to a parent. One Wordle player ran into this exact situation while trying to guide a parent through the process of finding the day's Wordle answer, combined with the added caveat of having to also break through a language barrier.
Originally posted by Reddit user mrbenten, the player recounts the experience of trying to teach their father, whose first language is not English, how to play through a game of Wordle. The entire story is hilarious but caps off perfectly with a misunderstanding of the spelling of a possible guess thanks to the language barrier between the father and the English-specific game.
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In the post, the fan recounts the struggle of trying to get their father to simply think of a single five-letter word to use as their first guess and start getting some clues for progressing further. It takes some time, but eventually, they get through a few guesses that eventually lead to a final guess of «patch» with the last four letters colored green. However, even though the father was this close to answering the day's Wordle, he stumbled over the final word thanks to their own history with English as a second language.
When looking for a word like «hatch» or «catch» that might fit the five-letter description ending in "-atch", the father tries to guess the word «tatch» at the end. The original poster then tries to explain that «tatch» isn't a word and has to ask their father what he thinks the word means in order to correct the misunderstanding. To cap off the story with
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