Why your usual Wordle strategy isn’t working for puzzle #265, according to a linguistics professor

Other Wordle tips- How to win at Wordle every day- No, Wordle isn’t getting harder- Games like WordleIf you’ve found today’s Wordle answer more difficult than most, you’re not alone. Puzzle #256 has proven so tough, in fact, that we’ve been live-blogging the internet’s reactions to the latest headache-inducing five-letter term.  But why is today’s answer proving trickier than others? TechRadar spoke to Dr Matthew Voice, an Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics at the UK’s University of Warwick, to find out the science behind the struggle.

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