Wordle has been pumping out the daily puzzle for quite some time now, so although this is in the realm of Don't give these clowns any ideas we'll go ahead and do it.
In a lot of respects, Wordle is a perfect target for a gematria take:
The correct solution is a five letter word, just in the right range for a daily dose of non reduction cipher number value. It’s now part of the New York Times, the mainstream media, so you know it must be evil. The answer is published by hint giving sites and social media, so there’s no need to actually be smart enough to solve it. And being daily, no need to try and predict what the word is, a good gematria decode is always a post mortem. Just tie that baby into the current news stories by pointing out how miraculously synchronous it is with whatever happened.
Today’s Wordle is BARGE. They are always in capital letters, so Qanon should appreciate that they don’t have to search through text for caps. Let’s see what we get - 33 and 102! 33, that’s a huge Freemason number. 102 is Slavery and the N word. Racist Freemasons. If only it was still the NBA season, somebody might have scored 102 points for the game and a leading scorer having 33 points would really frost the cake. Or in a pinch just decode words from a news story looking for the key numbers.
Back in the real world, I find Wordle to be fairly easy. It’s really all just pattern recognition. The tougher solutions are usually something like knowing the last four letters and having a choice of what the first letter is with your limit of six guesses running out. (POWER - TOWER - MOWER - COWER - LOWER). So far the only word that was the solution I found to be offbeat is ENNUI, they are usually normal and ordinary words. It reminds me of the old Word Jumble game in my daily hard copy newspaper.
Now that the cat is out of the bag, let’s assume that in the MLM some mid level Wordle expert pops up and look at what the downsides are and what’s wrong.
There are about 13,000 five letter words and some of those are odd enough that they are outside the vocabulary of everyone except hardcore Scrabble players. So the available pool is limited a lot. That’s still enough that even knowing a list of past solutions and expecting no repeats, for now the chances of actually predicting the next days word is about zero. It’s safe to say nobody expected ennui and used that as their 1st guess for that rate Wordle in one guess achievement. If you’re going to start pumping out Wordle gematria, the target audience for a video is not a good match. The people you want need the solution dumbed down to a number so when they see the 33 or 102 their brain can insert the answer they want, instead of the correct solution of BARGE. There is only one correct answer, it’s BARGE, not GRABE. So although you can play the anagram and sounds like game of altering the solution to an incorrect solution and gematrify that, the trend these days is to not do that as being too obviously bogus. Better stick to altering 102 to 201, because that’s far more useful in a bogus decode. Although, I admit that now I would love to decode GRABE since Lewis Carrol used OUTGRABE in Jabberwocky. A fine and mimsy word that OUTGRABE.
But mostly, the Wordle audience has people with decent pattern recognition skills. The kind of people that can solve most Wordles are not the kind that are gullible enough to drop a $50 donation in a superchat. I don’t see a mid level guru coming about that sticks just to Wordle gematria. There are plenty of side topic gurus like WNBA, PGA and hockey that don’t put out much content because there simply isn’t much demand for it. It would more likely be a throw in to part of a decode by someone higher up the food chain. The kind of person who knows damn well that it’s BS and is just trying to add new cult members who are impressed that they know Wordle better than the newcomer ever will.
What they could do is create their own version of Wordle. One where the word doesn’t have to be a real word. Where the answer can be wrong and that’s ok, because gematria is always wrong. Where you even get praised for being wrong as long as you break out your checkbook. And I have the perfect name for that shitty version of Wordle-
Turdle
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