The Zen of Wordle

The Zen of Wordle There are days when the letters fall automatically into place. That when your friends say, “You cheat.” Then too, there are days one struggles with Wordle. Wordle, a popular online puzzle hosted by the New York Times, invented by Josh Wardle. Players get six tries to guess a five-letter word, with…

Roux

How’s Your Day? Oz, the author of this blog, is having a bad day. He gets up, lets the dogs out, makes coffee, and starts to run through the gamut of games offered up free by the New York Times — Wordle, Mini, Connections, Spelling Bee. Compete, Oz likes competition. He has three groups to…

Wordle

I may be dazed or dense, a little bit dotty or drunk, occasionally lucky, but I am surely not dumb. To those who play Wordle, the online New York Times game; and my better brother who only posts when he wins: Is stupid ever a five letter word?

Outwordled

Were You Outwordled Today? Oz should just tattoo a gig “L” on his forehead. Oz, the author of this blog, plays Wordle, the word guessing game, daily. As good as he is, he consistently loses to women. Being “outwordled” is something he’ll have to get used to. New words are being created constantly. The OED…

Nonsense

Three is five, and five is four, and two and two are six. One is never one alone, in Wordle that makes perfect sense.

Don’t read this

If you are a Wardell fan and haven’t done today’s Wordle, don’t read this. In a pick up basketball game, a teammate said this when we were down and almost out, “you got a believe.“ Is a good thing and a good pick me up. A good companionto “conference carries today“. to “conference carries today“….

Wordle

The Key to Wordle Is there a key to solving Wordle? It is a game played daily by almost 3 million players. One would think that, by now, there would be national rankings, odds, a spread, gambling, but then it wouldn’t be just for fun. Having lost to women at quickly solving Wordle on innumerable…