Wordle players go into meltdown as brutal puzzle strikes: ‘Ridiculous’

NYT Wordle players all across the globe were left stumped over Tuesday’s extremely difficult word – so were you able to solve it?

The daily puzzle – which sees people try to guess a five-letter word in just six attempts – has soared in popularity in recent months.

Every day, thousands log on to put their skills to the test to try and solve the challenging word game – many of whom then take to social media to compare how quick they were able to figure it out.

But many people failed to figure out the answer to Tuesday’s puzzle, resulting in them losing their winning streaks.

Hundreds of outraged players took to Reddit to share their frustrations afterwards, and many confessed that they had never even heard of the answer.

NYT Wordle players all across the globe were left stumped over Tuesday’s extremely difficult word – so were you able to solve it?

The word for Tuesday’s puzzle was ‘corer,’ which means, ‘A person or thing that cores.’ 

‘End of a 94 day win streak,’ one upset player wrote on Reddit, while another added, ‘168 day streak down the drain.’

‘That’s not a word we use where I’m from,’ raged someone else.

‘Ridiculous,’ read a fourth comment. A fifth said, ‘RIP to all the streaks today.’

‘Nasty one today,’ a different user slammed.

‘I didn’t even think this was a word, it was just blind luck that I scraped this one,’ confessed someone else.

Another heartbroken player wrote, ‘I was just two games away from hitting 100 in my streak.’

‘I lost my two-week streak over a word that I never heard before,’ one comment read.

The daily puzzle – which sees people try to guess a five-letter word in just six attempts – has soared in popularity in recent months

 

But many people failed to figure out the answer to Tuesday’s puzzle, and hundreds of outraged players took to Reddit to share their frustrations afterwards

Wordle was inspired by the color-matching game Mastermind, and gives feedback to each guess in the form of colored tiles indicating that letters are in the word or in the right position.

It was created by Josh Wardle and launched in 2021, and by January 2022, over two million people had played the daily game.

Later that month, the New York Times bought the game for ‘an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures,’ and since then, it has only grown in popularity.

CBS previously reported that Wordle was played 4.8 billion times during 2023.