LogFAQs > #963062941

The secret to Wordle isn't that it's great, it's that it's a socially acceptable way to say "hello friends, I'm alive today, are you also alive today?".

This 1 minute puzzle serves as a pretense to acknowledge your own existence and the existence of friends without the seeming neediness and emptiness of something like posting "hi all" every day.

One does not wordle to wordle, but instead one wordles to be seen and to be heard... if just for a single moment every day. Wordle is not a puzzle game but a social/performative exercise in mutual acknowledgement whose main purpose is staving off the empty vacuum of isolation, a vacuum that if left unchecked, will provide comfortable residence to a growing psychological demon of nihilistic existential dread.