11/8/2023 0 Comments Daily wordle![]() Because Wordle only takes a few minutes to solve, it’s comforting to know that I can easily find time to play again tomorrow. ![]() And strangely, I don’t wish that I could. Because everyone is limited to one play per day with Wordle, it’s physically impossible to apply this same mentality to the game. As a result, I often end up watching so much TV on school breaks that it ceases to be enjoyable. ![]() While I love the rush of binging an entire series on Netflix or Hulu, I often resist the urge to start a completely new show in the middle of the semester - what if I can’t help but watch the whole thing? I worry that if I get too invested, I won’t be able to make time for anything else. It’s stimulation without the stress, and entertainment without the anesthetic. ![]() It lets us problem-solve without the pressure of grades and deadlines, and unwind without actively running away from ourselves. I’m not just numbly consuming content, but actively engaging with it. Confronted with a puzzle that requires my full attention to solve, Wordle is a nice change of pace. As it turns out, this is actually pretty common: In a 2009 study by consumer research firm Solutions Research Group looking at the media habits of American women, 58% of respondents reported turning TV on in the background.īy contrast, Wordle forces me to turn down whatever music or podcast episode I was previously using to drown out my thoughts and actually keep myself company. I often throw on an old episode of “Vampire Diaries” or “Parenthood” just to avoid steeping too long in my own thoughts. On the other hand, I normally watch TV shows because I want to zone out. As a result, I’m often so focused on absorbing as much information as possible that I forget to actually sit back and enjoy what I’m reading. With only so many hours in the day, most of my reading ends up being for school rather than pleasure. So many forms of entertainment exist on the edges of two extremes. In fact, that’s probably it’s biggest draw. While this analysis might sound a bit theatrical, Wordle certainly isn’t. However, the Wordle phenomenon runs much deeper than mere biology: With a new word to guess each day and endless people to discuss it with, Wordle strikes the perfect balance between stimulation and routine - and between competition and community. Like most successful games, puzzles and riddles, Wordle delivers that ever-satisfying “aha moment” and the accompanying burst of dopamine. Delightfully simple and (generally) solvable, the internet’s new favorite word game provides the perfect dose of joy amidst the mundane. With millions of daily players and a cult-like following on social media, Wordle-mania has successfully taken the internet - and our daily routines - by storm. Created by computer programmer Josh Wardle in October 2021 and sold to The New York Times in late January, Wordle has quickly become one of the internet’s favorite pastimes. You have six tries to guess the word correctly, using a process of elimination to narrow down the remaining letters after each round. After submitting a guess, each letter in the word turns green (the letter and location are correct), yellow (correct letter, wrong location) or gray (the letter is not in the word at all). Similar to the classic game “Hangman,” Wordle challenges users to decode a different five letter word each day. Normally, this involves stumbling to the communal shower and back, trying in vain to apply some mascara in the dim dorm lighting and making an incredibly mediocre cup of coffee - all while actively trying not to wake up my roommate.ĭespite the chaos of this daily morning shuffle, there’s an element of my routine that I’ve genuinely come to cherish: Like millions of others, every morning I sit down before class, open a new browser and play the daily Wordle. classes every day this semester, my morning routine reminds me daily of just how loud everything becomes when you’re trying to get ready in silence.
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