The Dialectics of Wordle
Wordle the daily word puzzle that has moved from attracting a few thousand people in the late Autumn to several million now, has been the subject of an exchange between the Head of M16 and GCHQ. Clearly the ruling class is taking the matter seriously and Boris is a five letter word although not one that would work in Wordle (or anywhere else it seems)
Personally I employ a dialectical approach. Starting with the thesis-the five letters I think might usefully and quickly lead to a solution, I then review the antithesis- finding out how many of those are actually correct- and finally the synthesis, hopefully in as few lines as possible.
Which particular perspective on the dialectic to take is more complex. I prefer the Fred Casey method (he demonstrated in the 1920s the dialectic via the example of the boiling kettle) or that of TA Jackson who wrote what is in my view the best book on Dialectics. But one can of course deploy the method of Dietzgen, Engels or Hegel and perhaps others as well.
Turning theory into practice is daily work in practice.
Wordle has been sold to the New York Times and the Guardian has published an Editorial calling for it to remain free. Why not nationalise it under players control?
Shocking third line there, Keith – it couldn’t possibly be “crack” as you’re been told in the line above that the fourth letter isn’t “c”
That’s not mine! Just an illustrative picture