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Wordle Postgame Report, December 7

GAMES OF SKILL AND CHANCE DEP'T.

Tom Scocca

08 Dec 2022 — 1 min read

'Su Componidori' (the Head of the JOUST) is pictured during a ritual dressing ceremony at the beginning of the Sartiglia in Oristano, on the Island of Sardinia, Italy on February 7, 2016. The Sartiglia is an equestrian tournament of ancient origins, where masked knights on horseback try to pass a star with a sword, galopping along the track. The traditional tournament is celebrated every year on the last Sunday and Tuesday of carnival. (Photo by Emmanuele Contini/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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December 7, JOUST, 4/6

I SAW THE date on my phone and I played PEARL. Wordle responded with five gray squares. So much for Wordle's Thanksgiving foray into theme words on special occasions. I tried to stick with the theme with SHOCK and got only a yellow S and O. The possibility of ZEROS buzzed across my mind but the E and the R were gone, and it was a plural, so: enough. Wordle was clearly trying to FOIST something else on me. Green O, green S, green T. JOUST, then. My head-to-head battle with the Wordle was done.

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