Wordle, the word-guessing recreation that has been a every day fixture in many individuals’s lives since 2021, had a harder phrase than ordinary in the present day, December 19. I don’t play Wordle, so I didn’t assume a lot of it when my coworkers have been chatting about how robust in the present day’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 have been completely crashing out about in the present day’s phrase.
The phrase for in the present day is “myrrh,” which, for many who don’t know in regards to the cool shit Jesus was given when he died, is a “aromatic gum resin obtained from numerous 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 possibly can see, myrrh has no vowels, so gamers have been already at a drawback. Many tried and failed to determine the phrase, and it nearly ruined their day.
enjoying in the present day’s wordle and there isn’t any vowels pic.twitter.com/zyq9l37IuP
— Ace♡ (@trashwoman_ace) December 19, 2025
how individuals gonna be speaking about in the present day’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 truly the toughest wordle ever made, what the fuck was that
— chloechu 💞 (@imchloechu) December 18, 2025
In the event you’re having an excellent day in the present day, do not play wordle
— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) December 19, 2025
Wordle in the present day for no purpose pic.twitter.com/Tzukl5q8Ns
— Enten 🂡 (@WielderOfEnten) December 19, 2025
These are only a few of the social media reactions I noticed, as they have been probably the most tame. What I wasn’t anticipating was a few of 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 a few of the vile shit I noticed Wordle gamers calling the sport’s builders. So in the event you’re all the way down to see some actually off-the-wall, extreme reactions to a easy phrase recreation, you possibly can seek for that your self.
At any price, possibly they’ll deliver “myrrh” again to Wordle when Jimmy Fallon’s recreation present model comes alongside, and we’ll see somebody crash out on dwell tv.
