Warning: This story contains spoilers for the online game Wordle.They felt like an American Wordler in London.Amid ongoing complaints that the New York Times ruined Wordle, Thursday’s answer caused an uproar among US-based players, who deemed the answer decidedly “too British.” A Twitter thread detailing the allegedly Anglocentric vocab — spoilers below — is currently blowing up online.For the uninitiated, the viral brain teaser — in which players get six tries to guess a new five-letter word each day — has become a daily routine for puzzle lovers of late.
Nonetheless, American Wordlers were flummoxed by Wordle 250’s answer “bloke” — British slang for “man,” which they found incomprehensible to anybody who didn’t live across the pond. “Good morning to everyone except that bloke who picked todays Wordle word,” fumed one frustrated Twitter user.“THIS HAS TO BE THE MOST BRITISH WORDLE I’VE SEEN F–KING BLOKE,” griped another.“No one else uses ‘bloke’ but the british,” snarled one stumped Wordler of the term, which is also ubiquitous across Australia and New Zealand.Interestingly, the complaints mark a complete turnaround from several weeks ago, when British puzzle fanatics slammed Wordle for employing the American spellings of certain words.
It’s been a trying week for the word puzzle, which was lambasted over Wednesday’s Wordle solution, “trove” — a collection of valuable items — which users also found staggeringly obscure.“Someone just DMed me the answer to todays Wordle which I can only describe as an act of terrorism,” vented one outraged Twitter user about the allegedly vexing vocab.The complaints follow weeks of backlash that began last month after the Times bought the puzzle from creator Josh Wardle for an undisclosed.
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