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🗓️ 9 January 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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0:00.0 | So this is a very, this is very frustrating and weird. Okay, so I am in a Slack that I don't |
0:08.4 | believe you're a part of where Wordle just flew by yesterday the day before, just in the last 48 |
0:13.3 | hours. And I have been, I've been enjoying it in the last couple of days. However, uh, that being |
0:20.2 | said, I have seen it independently presented |
0:23.2 | to me at least once from a like completely different circle of friends, like not even in the |
0:27.5 | same ballpark. And additionally, I have learned over the past three days of playing Wordle that I am |
0:33.1 | incredibly bad at Wordle. Like I enjoy it, But I am preposterously bad at it. Like, |
0:38.8 | today's, as we record this, I did not get it. I don't think I got yesterday's. I did get the first |
0:43.9 | one or two that I had done. You haven't been getting them? No, I'm terrible at it. Like I said. |
0:48.9 | Oh, man. Yeah, you are bad. Well, and the other problem is, the other issue is that it took me a while to realize |
0:54.7 | that you can repeat letters, which of course you can, but I didn't think about it that way at first. |
0:58.2 | That's not obvious. It's not obvious. And so anyway, so what we're talking about is this word game |
1:02.8 | called Wordle, which has a very peculiar URL. You would think it would be like Wordle.com or something |
1:07.4 | like that, but it's something. Because it's just all accidental okay tell me more |
1:10.9 | but so like i just i've i've been meaning to rest saw a story about this and i haven't uh read it yet |
1:15.8 | but somebody just created it because their partner wanted a video game like a web game like this |
1:21.4 | and then somehow it's caught on and has now become like a thing, you know? |
1:28.4 | That's pretty cool. |
1:30.2 | Anyway, so this is a five, it's a five-letter word game. |
1:33.5 | And what you have to do is you have six guesses to figure out the word. |
1:38.4 | And it's sort of like, did you ever play Mastermind as a kid? |
1:41.4 | No. |
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