Wordle players rage about many ‘variations’ on today’s puzzle: ‘Nobody talk to me’
wasn’t “difficult” enough, incensed social media users claimed they were unable to win Thursday’s game due to too many vocabulary variations in Twitter rants detailing the puzzle curveball.(Warning: spoilers below).For the uninitiated, the viral brain teaser grants players six attempts to guess a new five-letter word each day. However, these apparently weren’t enough for players of today’s Wordle 243, who complained that the Wordle Of the Day — “shake” — had far too many other alternative options to rule out.Specifically, while many Wordlers were able to complete “S”, “H”, “A” and “E,” they couldn’t guess “K” — one of the lesser-used consonants — and ended up selecting one of the structure’s more common variations such as “shape” to “shave” and “share,” per the angry Twitter posts.“I don’t usually share my #Wordle result but OMG this made me so mad!” vented one outraged Wordler, who lost after getting four out of the five letters correct for five of the guesses.“Nobody talk to me for 24 hours.