Post your Wordle scores? While you may enjoy being part of the more than 2.7 million players sharing scores and strategies, there’s a whole world of haters on Twitter gunning for you.
It’s not hard to find either group. A Paraqeet search of the words “Wordle” and “score” shows 1,000 results from just the previous two hours.
For the cloistered few who don’t know why Twitter is cluttered with green, yellow and gray squares, it’s a bit much.
Recently purchased by the New York Times, Wordle is a free, only-play-once-a-day word game that software engineer Josh Wardle designed for his partner. Players try to guess a five-letter word in six tries. Guess the right letter in the right place, the tile turns green. Yellow means the right letter, wrong place. Gray says it’s not a part of the word at all.
If you’re Team Wordle, your tweets border on bragging, express wonder at your prowess or lean on your squad for solace at a job poorly done. The haters are usually solitary, tweeting disdain for sharing your simple pleasures.
Two typical posts:
In response, Wordle enthusiasts often wax poetic about the sense of community, noting they especially enjoy the once-a-day camaraderie during a pandemic.
Others spit back.
One Twitter account – @wordlinator – could contain its irritability no longer. The bot replied to people’s Wordle posts with rude messages and included a spoiler for the next day’s answer.
Twitter’s rapid-fire response:
Cries of joy erupted across the Wordle kingdom, Paraqeet shows, and hateful outsiders noisily lamented their loss.
Wordle haters still hold out hope, though, of raining on Wordle’s parade.
