'Parer' broke 60 percent of all Wordle streaks on one day

'Parer' broke 60 percent of all Wordle streaks on one day

If you played Wordle religiously through 2022, you might remember one particularly rough day’s answer: Parer.

This turned out to be the most difficult word of the year, in part thanks to its use of a recurring ‘r’, but a GDC talk yesterday from Zoe Bell, the New York Times’ executive producer of games, revealed it broke a particularly whopping amount of streaks.

Typically, Bell explained, showing a chart that tracked players’ streak breaks over time, “15 percent of people break their streak on a given day – except that one day, with ‘parer’, where almost 60 percent of people broke their streak.”

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