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Jason England

‘I barely know the word’: August 14’s Wordle answer has been killing streaks worldwide — here’s why it’s so hard

A person holding a phone showing a game of Wordle on the screen.

Just as we thought the worst Wordle was behind us from July 15, the editors at NYT have cooked up another brutal test for August 14. In fact, our in-house Wordle expert called game #1,882 “the hardest puzzle in quite a while,” and that he “felt pretty lucky to get it in six moves.”

One trip to Wordlebot shows just how tricky it is — not quite as devious as last month (which took players an average of 4.7 moves to complete), but with the average player finishing today’s Wordle in 4.3 moves, that goes to show just how tricky this one is.

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