Wordle Editor Tracy Bennett Breaks Down How She Chooses Which Words Make The Cut

Do you also find yourselves wondering sometimes about how the words in the Wordle puzzle game are selected? Read this article to know how.

Wordle Editor Tracy Bennett disclosed how she decides which words will make the cut for the puzzle.

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Wordle is a fairly popular brainstorming game which is widely played nowadays across the globe. Josh Wardle, a US-based software engineer, developed Wordle in 2021. The New York Times acquired it later in January 2022 but it did not make any changes to its features. The objective of the game is pretty simple, players have to correctly guess the randomly generated word of the day using six chances.

The game is free for all and uses a system of coloured squares to indicate the status of the letters entered, with green indicating the correct position, yellow indicating the correct letter but incorrect position, and grey indicating an incorrect letter.

Do you also find yourselves wondering sometimes about how these words are selected? Or who selects them and why? We might be able to help with that query of yours today. Wordle Editor Tracy Bennett recently revealed how she decides which words will make the cut and will test your intelligence that day.

 

 

 

 

 

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What Happens To Word That Bennett Might Be Unaware Of

There are certain words that Bennett is aware of and adds to the list and at the same time there are also some that she might not have heard of a lot. However, she does not just slide that word under the mat rather she takes it down in her notebook and researches about it. She would then make a decision about it one way or another.

She has a knack for newer words but tries to not include extremely unheard words in the game such as Zhuzh. While explaining why she made this decision, she said that the word might be very hard to solve and it also might be unknown to a lot of people. She tries to make the game as inclusive as possible so that everyone can enjoy it irrespective of the region that they live in.

She also revealed why she prefers adding name-worthy words in the game. While giving an example of the word Sally, Bennett said that there is a possibility that a person named Sally might be solving this puzzle that day and would feel special upon discovering that her name was the key to the riddle.