Sucess and the Wordle Game!
Priya Gopal
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The WORDLE game has caught on and how! It is a word game where a person gets 6 tries to guess a five-letter word.
As the game grew in popularity, people began sharing their results with each other. The share ensures you can’t see the final word. You can see the number of attempts the person makes to reach the word.
And there we go, getting into a different tangent over the game. People have now moved from wanting to just crack the word, but wanting to crack the word in the least number of attempts. Some are even looking at getting it right in the first attempt!
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The number of displays of success at the Wordle game on social media seem to stop at the third attempt. This led me to think about why this pressure on ourselves to crack the code. When the game gives you 6 attempts to crack the word, there is this self-driven pressure that we put on ourselves to clear the game in the least number of attempts. This brings me to the fact that somewhere in our consciousness is a deeply ingrained idea that success is valid with the least number of trials.
For years we know how educational organizations have reinforced the idea of failure and shamed it. Any one who takes longer to learn is looked down upon. Anyone who is unable to clear an exam with the minimum number of marks is declared as failed. Anyone who doesn’t set up a business and gets it running in the first time is a failure. Anyone who wants to experiment, and learn by trial and error is looked down upon.
And this mentality comes into a simple word game. The word game inherently gives you 6 chances of equal value. The final report reveals how many games you have played, how many you have won and how long is your winning streak. ?Yet, somewhere we have made this game one of success and failure. The whole focus is shifting from enjoying the unravelling of the word to not just cracking the code, but to making it a standard to measure the success of the individual.?
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3 年Very well written and so true! I look at it like this...If it has been guessed it in the first or second attempt...its only guess work. No analytical, logical or reasoning skills have been applied. Pure guess and luck.
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3 年Perfectly said! This resonates really well. Our family group wakes up each morning to share the number of tries it took each to complete Wordle. I guess it is the ingrained notion of survival of the fittest that has made humans so competitive.