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Wordle Postgame Report, February 28, 2023

GAMES OF SKILL AND CHANCE DEP'T.

Tom Scocca

Mar 3, 2023 — 2 min read

Ambrotype Of Three Women In Dotted Calico Dresses - A black-and-white photograph of three African-American women seated in a row with their arms linked together at the elbows and their hands placed in their laps right-over-left. All three women wear dresses made from a dark fabric with light-colored POLKA dots. Each wears a small white collar of slightly different styles. The woman in the center and the woman at the right facing side have gold rings on their fingers. All three women wear their hair tied back. The photograph is housed behind decorative gold foil inside a black leather-covered wood case with a missing lid. Artist Unknown. (Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

The Wordle Postgame Report is a brief analysis of a game of Wordle, the five-letter-word guessing game now owned by the New York Times. If you do not play Wordle, Indignity encourages you to please skip this item. The existence of the Wordle Postgame Report does not constitute an endorsement of playing Wordle, of not playing Wordle, or of the New York Times.

February 28, POLKA, 4/6

WITH THE BIRDS twittering in the slushy trees outside, I played CHIRP and got a yellow P. The next place to try it was in the front, but then instead of trying to fill two or three sensible vowels, I had the urge to be unreasonable and try PSALM. The P was green; the A and L were yellow. If the L went with the P, the A couldn't follow the pair; what about PLEAT? No to both placements. The next logical-seeming structure would be to make something out of PAL-. Instead, I shoved the A to the end, with POLKA. The letters did their little two-beat rhythm of triumph.

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