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Having a very, very longWordlestreak is a blessing and a curse.
On the other, it turns every game into a must-win ordeal.
After all, what would I be without my Wordle streak?
A so-called ‘expert’ with no credentials, that’s what.
I’d be laughed out of town.
And it’s all the fault of theNew York Times’puzzle setters.
You have been warned.
Wordle hall of shame
Let’s start with a question: what’s the hardest Wordle ever?
Or maybe BORAX, a word that many players outside of the United States had almost no knowledge of?
Or JAZZY, with its repeated Zs and very-uncommon J at the start?
None of those, actually the toughest ever is PARER, game #454 in September 2022.
High, but not ridiculously so.
However, that only tells half of the story.
Right, let’s get into the specifics now, which means revealing today’s answer.
This is your last chance to go away and play if you haven’t done so yet.
FINAL SPOILER ALERT
Sorry, what?
Today’s answer is UVULA.
No, me neither.
I do sort of know what it means, actually.
For the unaware, it’s the soft dangly bit between your tonsils at the back of your throat.
Others will not be so lucky.
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All of this added up to make it a very tough game.
Here, you will ultimately reach a point where nothing else fits!
That’s what happened to me, anyway.
Here, I must have stared at the board and played around with various letter combinations for two hours.
That’s genuinely no exaggeration.
My family thought I’d gone mad.
I nearly gave up I was completely stumped.
However, I have a daily column to write so kept going and eventually scored a five.
NYT blues
So why is this the NYT’s fault and not mine?
Well, it’s worth noting that this is for the second day in a row a non-canonWordle answer.
Notice anything about those words?
Yes they include some of the toughest in recent memory.
It’s official: the NYT is making Wordle harder!
There’s nothing wrong with this, really and I like a challenge as much as anyone.
UVULA is a perfectly fair word, albeit an undeniably difficult one to solve in Wordle.
