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Today's Wordle answer is so hard it nearly cost me my 1,045-game streak – and it's all the NYT's fault
- The game Wordle is becoming increasingly difficult over time, according to a writer attempting to maintain one of the longest recorded winning streaks.
- The average score of a round has crept up because the game's creator, Josh Wardle, is running out of obvious word options to include.
- The writer behind the column says that each game has come to be seen as a challenge to maintain the high score that has been amassed over an extensive period of time.
- Thursday's game proved particularly challenging for players, as the correct answer was "UVULA", a word meaning the soft tissue at the back of the throat. It has an average score of 4.9 among all players completing the puzzle, and was rated as one of the hardest Wordle puzzles ever.
- Other disputed tough Wordles included "PARER", which earned a 6.3 average score, "MUMMY", with a 5.8 average and "PRIMP", with a 4.5 average.
- The game was created by Wardle and his partner, and enjoys widespread popularity as a quick and addictive online tool in which players must guess a word with only five chances.
- Overall, the game has an average score of 3.964, calculated across 956 games. Its most common word is "LASER", with an average score of 3.3.
- To date, there have been 10 solutions to the game created by the New York Times, which have boosted the game's average score owing to these being particularly tricky solutions, including "SNAFU", "BALSA" and "MOMMY".
- Wardle has said the popularity of the game exceeded his expectations, telling The New Yorker this month that, for the pair, designing the game was "just a way to hang out and distract ourselves from our real lives".
- The game has come a long way in 1,246 rounds which have lasted since 2022. A Google extension allows users to play the game on Chrome. The most-clicked tweet on Wordle was posted by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who tweeted about the game whilst congratulating HCL Technologies.
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