What’s the most difficult Wordle ever? We have the answer
Few things get the brain going like a difficult Wordle, and there have been plenty of them over the game’s first 1,000 puzzles.
From obscure words such as ASCOT and SCRAM to Wordles with lots of repeated letters like SASSY and VIVID, and of course Wordles with the dreaded too-many-answers format (HATCH and FOUND), there are plenty of pitfalls awaiting unwary Wordlers.
But, on the day that Wordle turns 1,000, what have been the hardest Wordles so far? Read on and I’ll tell you all…More Wordle 1,000 stories
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It’s impossible to give a definitive answer to what the hardest Wordles are, because the game only exploded in popularity late in 2021, when there had already been nearly 200 games. But I can give you an accurate idea of which games have been the toughest since early 2022.
That’s because the New York Times, which bought Wordle in March of that year, launched a helper tool called WordleBot soon after the purchase. WordleBot is fantastic for many reasons, but one of my favorite things about it is that it details the average score for each game from everyone who’s played it.
I’ve recorded those scores for every game from April 2022, meaning that I have data for just over 700 of them. I’m not going to list them all – that would make for rather a long article – but I’ve included the top 50 or so below.
It’s no surprise (to me at least) that Wordle #454, PARER, is the hardest yet. That was a beast of an answer, and one that had a remarkable average score of 6.3. Yes, that’s the right – the average was a fail. I escaped with a 6/6 on that day, but only by guessing correctly on a one-in-three chance between PARER, PAVER and PAYER.
