{"id":877,"date":"2022-02-21T00:25:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T00:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=877"},"modified":"2025-09-29T04:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T04:29:10","slug":"im-into-the-wordle-craze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m into the Wordle craze&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20282e1454f78200b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wordle image 1\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e20282e1454f78200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20282e1454f78200b-250wi\" style=\"width: 209px;\" title=\"Wordle image 1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>UPDATE<\/strong><\/em><\/span>:<em> I may start using AROSE as my first word &#8211; S may be used more frequently than T in the dictionary and text. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brigid introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/technology\/wordle-what-how-play-word-game-free-online-rules-explained-1383747\">wordle<\/a> to me because a friend of hers is doing it. Mostly I do it on my phone and <strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">below is today&#39;s result<\/span><\/strong>. First time I&#39;d gotten it on the second line &#8211; which is really good luck. <strong>ORATE<\/strong> has been what I&#39;ve used as my starting word &#8211; three vowels and recommended by several analysts. It&#39;s an easy game (so far I&#39;m batting 100%, so it must be easy&#8230;); so not sure how long the craze will last.<\/p>\n<p>The inventor of the game is Josh Wardle, a Welsh engineer who currently lives in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In January 2022, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_New_York_Times\" title=\"The New York Times\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em> announced that it had acquired <em>Wordle<\/em> &quot;for an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures.&quot;<sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-:0_1-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Josh_Wardle#cite_note-:0-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20282e14559ae200b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wordle 2022_02_21 12_23 AM Office Lens\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e20282e14559ae200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20282e14559ae200b-450wi\" style=\"width: 420px;\" title=\"Wordle 2022_02_21 12_23 AM Office Lens\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: I may start using AROSE as my first word &#8211; S may be used more frequently than T in the dictionary and text. Brigid introduced wordle to me because a friend of hers is doing it. Mostly I do it on my phone and below is today&#39;s result. First time I&#39;d gotten it on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7399,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/7399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}