# Wordle saved a life **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** board-card-word-game\ **Created:** [February 11, 2022, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-saved-a-life/959329 "2022-02-11T19:06:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-saved-a-life/959329/1 "2022-02-11T19:06:54Z")
> **[A missing game of Wordle helps end a 17-hour hostage ordeal](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60312231)** > > Police were alerted to a hostage situation when an 80-year-old woman failed to send her daily Wordle. An elderly woman living in Illinois was taken hostage by a mentally ill man who burst into her house nude and pointed a pair of scissors at her. He promised he wouldn’t hurt her, but forced her to bathe (still in her nightgown) with him before disconnecting the phones and locking her in the basement. Her daughter, from Seattle, became concerned when her mother didn’t answer texts or send in her daily Wordle, which has become a tradition. She called the police for a wellness check on her mother, and a 17-hour police standoff ended with the man tasered and taken into custody. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-saved-a-life/959329/2 "2022-02-11T21:17:57Z")
When I clicked on this thread, I wasn’t prepared for the Wordle connection to be the _least_ bizarre aspect of the story. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-saved-a-life/959329/3 "2022-02-11T21:26:39Z")
Crazy ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-saved-a-life/959329/4 "2022-02-11T22:59:52Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Crazy I haven’t done Wordle yet today. I think this will be my starting word. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-saved-a-life/959329/5 "2022-02-12T05:13:10Z")
I dislike it. I have been sucking at it.