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How a Crossword Editor Plays Wordle

It doesn’t have the richness of a crossword, but I play it religiously.
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This week I want to take a break from our usual format and write about the biggest news in the word-puzzle community since the invention of the anagram. By now, you’ve probably heard about 10 times over from friends and followers alike. The daily word game, originally created by the software developer Josh Wardle to amuse his partner during pandemic downtime, quickly became a

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