Around when Wordle really started to blow up, Jimmy Fallon once spent a whole segment of The Tonight Show solving a puzzle in front of his audience. (The segment aired right before The New York Times bought Wordle from creator Josh Wardle in early 2022.) Fingers crossed this TV show isn't just one person muddling through a puzzle like Fallon did - I got frustrated watching the segment because I just wanted to make my own guesses.
It shows how many people fail to grasp the very basic reality that this is a game show You may have heard of The Traitors Ireland. You may well be one of the 600,000-odd people who tuned in to the first episode on RTÉ One and have been glued ever since.
The premise is simple - three members of the public are kidnapped recruited to take part in completely random tasks at the behest of Kita and Anita, with no set rules, concrete way to win, or guarantee of personal or mental safety.