A small thing that made my day before 7:00 am

 


THIS DOES NOT CONTAIN A SPOILER!

A rarely do Wordle in the morning, but strangely, I swiped to the NY Times Games app first thing this morning and played while still laying in bed (in a hotel, in Denver, which is off routine anyway!).

I pick a random word every day, often inspired by something that pops into my brain, and today I barely had to think to come up with my word. Today, my guess was unique enough that it used by less than 0.1% of players, according to the Wordle Bot!

Hmmm, one letter right.
I moved it to the first letter, glanced at the remaining letters and guessed quickly again, without a ton of obsessing, re-arranging, or strategizing. Just moving from instinct. As each box turned green, I got more and more excited... til finally, I got a compliment from the app: "Magnificent!"

It's such a small thrill to get Wordle in 2, and for all the silly reasons, it sets me on a path of positivity for the whole day. Let me say good morning to more people! Let me let someone cut in front of me on the train - no problem. OK, the Denver airport was packed and hectic, but no worries, I got Wordle in 2 and it turns out, for once, my gate was closest to the shuttle, not farthest. Thank you, Wordle!

Any other Wordle fans out there?

(PS: In case you're wondering: I am not Irish, so this is a Wordle thing, not luck of the Irish thing for me!)



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  1. WOW! I'm impressed! I've had that thrill of getting Wordle in 2 seventeen times so far. (Yes, I went and looked at my stats!!) I wrote about Wordle-ing for today's slice, too. I got it in 3 on Friday and wrote a Wordle-ku using my guesses. Molly at Nix the Comfort Zone is also a Wordler, and it was her post on Friday that pushed me to write mine!

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    1. I love that you checked your own stats, and now I'm going to check out the other Wordle-ific Slices for more inspo - thank you for the heads-up, Mary Lee!

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  2. Wordle 1,366 2/6

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    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Me Too! I do the Wordle first thing every morning and share the results with my sister-in-law and niece. I have only solved it in two 26/690. You would have thought I won the lottery! Glad the rest of your day floated on the happiness of solving it in two!

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    1. Rita, I can't believe - two 2s right here in the Slicing world!!! I went crazy and my husband was not duly impressed. Thank goodness other Wordle-ing Slicers get it! (And I'm impressed with your 2 data - I'm not even at 3%, and you're touching 4%!).

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  3. Nice! I am a Wordle-er! I used to use a different word every day because I knew that was the only way I could ever get it one. And I did it onece! Now, I use the same starter words. I am thinking about using Wordle for my April poetry project, which means I would need to switch to a new word.

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