There has been lots of speculation (including from yours truly) over whether The New York Times made Wordle harder.
19’s “SWILL” where those respective Wordle solutions reached 100. Fast forward to February 15’s “AROMA” and Feb. (For reference, Google Trends compares search results on a topic and then scales them on a range of 0 to 100 based on a topic’s proportion to all searches on every topic.) By February 14, however, searches for Wordle solutions peaked, hitting 100 on Google’s scale.įor example, January 4’s Wordle was “SIEGE” and registered a lowly 1 on the scale. “Last December, search interest for the question ‘today’s wordle’ on Google was so low it registered a ‘0’ for search popularity,” the study states. Considering how much it sold for, Wordle was obviously popping off prior to the undisclosed seven-figure acquisition of the word game, yet it appears cheating was remarkably low. Yes, Google searching the answer to the popular five-letter word guessing game is a cardinal sin in my book, but it looks like a whole lot of you are remorseless sinners.Ī recent study conducted by WordFinderX - an online word helper for games like Scrabble and Wordle - found that cheating on Wordle’s daily puzzle is “at an all-time high.”Īfter analyzing Google Trends data over the past three months, the reference website found that Google searches for Wordle answers have nearly tripled since The New York Times acquired the game at the end of January. The fear of losing your precious Wordle streak can force a person to take part in some unspeakable, reprehensible acts - like cheating.
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