Wordle Continues to Have Its Moment

Words

Awareness of the outside world. BBC: A missing game of Wordle helps end a 17-hour hostage ordeal.
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I have read that the brain can’t process negation. If you give a riding instruction of “Don’t do X.”, the brain hears “Do X.” That’s the theory. Also that the brain accepts a visualized experience the same way as an actual experience. Again, that’s the theory.

I had no reason to doubt it, but not sure I bought into it. Until it happened to me.

Our story begins with five little green squares.

Lovely, right?

Getting Wordle in the first go.

It is FALSE.

I know it is wrong.

And yet.

This was how my Wordle should look from Friday.

A few hours later, an errant tap reopened the game. It was blank. What? Does it reset at a different time than I thought? Is it a new game? Huh. I’ll try today’s word …