Wordle, the word-guessing recreation that has been a day by day fixture in many individuals’s lives since 2021, had a harder phrase than traditional at present, December 19. I don’t play Wordle, so I didn’t suppose a lot of it when my coworkers had been chatting about how powerful at present’s phrase was. That’s, till I regarded exterior of the Kotaku Slack and to the remainder of the web, the place I noticed that Wordle gamers had been completely crashing out about at present’s phrase.
The phrase for at present is “myrrh,” which, for individuals who don’t know in regards to the cool shit Jesus was given when he died, is a “aromatic gum resin obtained from varied Arabian and African bushes and utilized in perfumery, medicines, and incense.” For lots of gamers, the go-to Wordle technique is to start out by guessing vowels as a foundation after which filling in consonants based mostly on the place the vowels fall. As you’ll be able to see, myrrh has no vowels, so gamers had been already at a drawback. Many tried and failed to determine the phrase, and it nearly ruined their day.
taking part in at present’s wordle and there isn’t any vowels pic.twitter.com/zyq9l37IuP
— Ace♡ (@trashwoman_ace) December 19, 2025
how folks gonna be speaking about at present’s wordle pic.twitter.com/KhgqsrP8Ce
— DD | Main (@MajorSSB) December 19, 2025
Guys please belief me and go play the wordle proper now it’s really the toughest wordle ever made, what the fuck was that
— chloechu 💞 (@imchloechu) December 18, 2025
When you’re having a very good day at present, do not play wordle
— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) December 19, 2025
Wordle at present for no cause pic.twitter.com/Tzukl5q8Ns
— Enten 🂡 (@WielderOfEnten) December 19, 2025
These are only a few of the social media reactions I noticed, as they had been probably the most tame. What I wasn’t anticipating was among the different responses I got here throughout that we elected to not share right here. I do know edgy humor and wild comparisons are frequent in most gaming spheres, however I didn’t count on among the vile shit I noticed Wordle gamers calling the sport’s builders. So should you’re all the way down to see some actually off-the-wall, extreme reactions to a easy phrase recreation, you’ll be able to seek for that your self.
At any fee, perhaps they’ll carry “myrrh” again to Wordle when Jimmy Fallon’s recreation present model comes alongside, and we’ll see somebody crash out on dwell tv.
