NEW YORK, NY - In the wake of strikes against working conditions at the New York Times, worried workers of the website have resigned their protests after noticing a very ominous trend in the puzzles of the New York Times' word-puzzle game Wordle.
The game, in which you have 5 guesses to the identity of a 5-letter word, has apparently been featuring more and more worrying words as solutions, sources say.
"At first, the day after we resigned, the word was 'SORRY,' which we thought was a bit in poor taste," David French, an opinion columnist for the Times, said. "Then after that, it was 'BLOOD.' Then 'PERIL.' We came back a couple days later, which is good because the word that day was 'SEVER,' and I feel like it was only going to get worse from there."
"Wait, did 'sorry' mean that we were going to be sorry?" he added.
New York Times staff denied any accusations that this was targeted, insisting that they choose 5-letter words for Wordle completely randomly.
"No, there was no intent to threaten the writers of the New York Times using Wordle, that's patently ridiculous," Meredith Kopit Levien, president and CEO of the New York Times, said when asked for comment. "We've already been sending them bags of bloody teeth."*
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