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Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
National
Robert McCoppin

Wordle helped save grandmother being held by armed home invader, cops say. Family was concerned woman didn’t text her daily score

Sometimes the smallest sign can suggest something is wrong — like a missing Wordle score.

When 80-year-old grandmother Denyse Holt failed to text her daily score for Wordle, her two daughters thought it was strange, since she always shared her results from the popular online puzzle in which players try to guess a five-letter word.

When Holt failed to respond or even read their texts or answer the phone, the daughters, who live on the West Coast, got worried. When they had a neighbor check her house in Lincolnwood, Illinois, and her car was there but she didn’t answer, they knew something was wrong.

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