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>>cyanba+(OP)
"Crisis" is a massively overblown word for this. And the "wordle community" is a drop in the bucket of regular players, and not remotely representative.

I did have a similar reaction personally to the "exciting news" framing but I'm not actually sure it's wrong. The original list of words was an excellent list, and it's been over 4 years.

>>furyof+Ml
> "Crisis" is a massively overblown word for this.

Given that it is Wordle, “panic” would be a far more appropriate word.

>>teeray+dt
Alarm, dread, scare, shock, start, worry.

>>alexfo+zw
Alarm is a good guess. On average I can solve a wordle in 3.6 turns when I start with this guess.

>>hyperb+hA
Repeated letters are wasted utility. Wouldn't that make it suboptimal for a first move?

>>ted_bu+3S
I used to use alert, until it was the word one day (got it in one!). Then I switched.

Apparently I should switch back, since it could be the word again.

>>kQq9oH+K31
I always used the previous day's word as the starting word. IMHO that should have been how the game worked all along.

>>Camper+Xi1
Why would you rob yourself of the chance of a wordle-in-one?

>>xnorsw+TG1
Because a wordle-in-one is meaningless. It doesn't mean you're any good at Wordle, the way a hole-in-one suggests you're good at golf. It definitely doesn't mean that you're a "Genius" as the game puts it, because you were operating with zero information and didn't employ any skill or intuition. It just means you burned some luck points on something that doesn't matter.

>>Camper+5y2
Yeah but it's a wordle-in-one...