There's a five-letter word that describes Tracy Bennett's job: B-L-I-S-S. The first Wordle editor opens up about her process for editing the game, what it's like to send social media into a frenzy with her word choices, and more.
In November, The New York Times — which acquired Wordle from creator Josh Wardle in early 2022 — announced Bennett as the first editor of the wildly popular game. Bennett, who joined the Times as an associate puzzle editor in 2020, now curates each day's answer from her home in Michigan, which she calls a dream job.
Bennett sat down with TODAY.com on Monday, Jan. 9, to talk about her process for editing Wordle, which tasks players with guessing a five-letter solution in six turns or fewer, and what it's like to send social media into a frenzy with her word choices.Well, I think there was some nervousness in the community of Wordle solvers, that I would change things somehow, you know, that I would mess with things too much, but my family and friends were very proud of me.
That’s the only one I can think of that was news-related. That was before I became editor, so it was a team decision. But that’s one of the things I do as an editor, is I look at the week coming up. And I just kind of check the news cycle to see if there’s anything that would make one of those words feel more hurtful or insensitive than normal.The thing that was persuasive in the arguments were those that were made by people who approached me with respect and told me their opinions.
Wordle, created by software engineer Josh Wardle, became hugely popular in late 2021 and was acquired by The New York Times in January 2022.Actually, we get more complaints about broken streaks than anything else. People don’t like when a word feels unfair in that way that you have four letters in place, and there are still a lot of letters that could complete that word. So we get that. And we do get complaints about secondary meanings. That’s something that I focus on as an editor.
“Parer,” at least in my memory. “Rupee.” A word that is regional, like for example a really American word. I got complaints about “condo,” for example, based on it being kind of an American concept. Regional or foreign language words. We did remove a Latin word from the list.I was whimsical. I did something different every day. For a while before I was editor, when I played the game, I started with"trace.
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