Today's Wordle answer is so hard it's wrecking people's streaks

A Wordle streak is a point of pride for a lot of players across the globe and while a high score is nice, it's the cherry on top of onward progress. So there's some understandable concern blazing through social media right now because today's Wordle answer (#1,244, Thursday, November 14) is a very tough nut to crack. In fact, our resident Wordle player here at Tom's Guide has gone as far as calling today's puzzle one of the hardest of 2024 so far.

So it's not surprising many people may see their streak come to an end today. To quote Obi-Wan Kenobi, it's as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. The in-game AI helper tool WordleBot analyzes your game after you've played it and it does the same for everyone else.

According to the bot, the average player completes puzzle #1,244 in 4.9 moves in easy mode, or 4.5 if playing by hard rules.

Which, actually, isn't that high (puzzle #454 back in September '22 has a score of 6.3) — so what's going on? Warning: Spoiler ahead! If you've carried on reading, I'm going to assume you're happy to know the answer to today's Wordle score. It's UVULA.

Right? Me neither. It may sound like a made-up word but it does actually mean something. I had to Google it, but according to WebMD it's "that soft flap of tissue that looks like a droplet at the back of your mouth".

The answer starts with UVU which you would only find in very few other words, and actually having two letter U's in the answer is extremely rare. Enough to stump even hardcore players. Not to mention that most people probably won't ever have even heard of it.

The social media meltdown As you'd expect, there's a lot of worry on social media — so much so that #Wordle1244 is trending on X.com. Plenty of players aren't happy with today's answer and commentators have pointed out that the recent crop of Wordle answers have been very difficult.

It's not hard to see why, as the game has been running for a few years now and most of the easy words have been used up. If you were one of those who lost their streak through today's puzzle then commiserations. But pick yourself up, dust yourself down and we'll see you tomorrow to begin anew.

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