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However, I HATE today’s game.
HATE it so much that I need to use capital letters for emphasis.
Don’t worry, I didn’t fail.
My streak is still unbeaten at 1,134.
You weren’t worried about my streak?
No, I HATE it because it has a particular format that acts as my personal Kryptonite.
And I’m no Superman.
Seriously, I seem to have a mental blind spot when it comes to solving Wordles like this one.
And nor am I the only one because today’s game has an incredibly high average score of 4.9.
Maybe you’ll HATE it too.
SPOILERS FOR TODAY’S WORDLE, MONDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2025, FOLLOW BELOW.
My least favorite Wordle format ever
Wordle is by its nature a game of patterns.
I dug into all this in myanalysis of every Wordle answer.
GOODY is just terrible, isn’t it?
It’s not a good word pun intended.
I mean what kind of person even says ‘GOODY’?
A three-year-old, maybe, and they should be watchingBlueyor something rather than playing Wordle.
To prove how much I struggle with them, I did a little number crunching.
However, looking only at OO words it jumps to 4.19 more than a half guess higher!
It’s not just me honest!
And I’m not alone, either.
But for OO words it jumps to a mighty 4.29.
Admittedly, everyone else finds ER words even harder to solve the average there is 4.41.
That was way before anyone was actually playing Wordle, so I only completed it via the Wordle Archive.
In fact, that’s my only loss so far, from all 1,333 Wordles.
It’s not a proper loss, because it wasn’t played ‘live’ but it still rankles.
Maybe now you’re free to see why I hate OO words so much.
What’s the problem here anyway?
Why are OO words so difficult?
Or not only that.
Same for most other letters.
Is it going to be an OOM word like GLOOM?
An OON word like SWOON?
An OOP word like SCOOP?
Is it going to be preceded by an R like in BROOM or a T as in STOOD?
There are just too many options.
But at least I know to look out for ER words.
