Was April the Toughest Month Ever for Wordle? Who Guesses X and Z?

New York Times puzzlemakers, what was that about? Was it just me, or was April 2025 one of your toughest months ever -- for all your games, maybe, but especially for Wordle? CNET publishes the daily answers for Wordle, Connections, Strands, Connections: Sports Edition and the Mini Crossword, and I've seen some doozies. But April Wordle broke my streak twice. Maybe more than that. I'm not counting anymore. Read more: Daily NYT Puzzle Answers (Spoilers for past puzzles ahead.) If you play Wordle, you probably have your own starter words all lined up. I almost always begin with TRAIN and CLOSE. I'm not the kind of person who just looks around the room, sees a chair and plays that word. I play those words because I know, from a list I made for CNET and based on research from the Oxford English Dictionary, that TRAIN and CLOSE contain some of the most popular letters used in English. This month's Wordle answers included OZONE, with a Z, the 24th-least-popular letter, smack in the middle ... Read full article.