Wordle players have fiercely slammed the New York Times over the extremely ‘challenging’ word on the October 14 puzzle.
The daily puzzle – which sees people try to guess a five-letter word in just six attempts – has soared in popularity in recent months.
Every day, thousands across the globe log on to put their skills to the test to try and solve the difficult word game – and then share their results online.
But Monday’s puzzle was met with immense criticism, as many people admitted that they had never heard of the answer.
The word was ‘gamut,’ which means, ‘the complete range or scope of something.’
Wordle players have fiercely slammed the New York Times over Monday’s extremely ‘challenging’ word
The daily puzzle – which sees people try to guess a five-letter word in just six attempts – has soared in popularity in recent months
Immediately, X, formerly Twitter, was flooded with posts from frustrated players who branded Monday’s puzzle as too hard.
‘What the hell is a gamut?’ one angry user asked, while another added, ‘Oh piss off.’
Someone else simply wrote, ‘Gamut,’ alongside a GIF of a man looking furious.
‘Never bloody heard of the word,’ confessed a different person.
‘Why did I struggle with Wordle today omg what even is that word?’ read a fifth tweet.
A sixth said, ‘I’ve never heard of gamut in my life.’
‘What does gamut even mean dude?’ another outraged player scathed.
People also took to Reddit, where one user confessed, ‘That was hard, really got me thinking. I didn’t know the word so I eliminated letters.’
Monday’s word was ‘gamut,’ which means, ‘the complete range or scope of something’
But the puzzle was met with immense criticism, as many people admitted that they had never heard of the answer
People also took to Reddit, where one user confessed, ‘That was hard, really got me thinking. I didn’t know the word so I eliminated letters’
‘Not a clue what the word means,’ another added.
‘No idea this word even existed, was quite surprised when the letters started to turn green,’ someone else said.
Wordle was inspired by the color-matching game Mastermind, and gives feedback to each guess in the form of colored tiles indicating that letters are in the word or in the right position.
It was created by Josh Wardle and launched in 2021, and by January 2022, over two million people had played the daily game.
Later that month, the New York Times bought the game for ‘an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures,’ and since then, it has only grown in popularity.
CBS previously reported that Wordle was played 4.8 billion times during 2023.
