Instead, anywhere from 0.2% to 0.5% of people are managing to pull off a first-turn win in Wordle’s normal mode, with Dilger converting that to between 4,000 and 10,000 players based on Wordle’s 1.7 million daily users.
It’s a small number of people, but this type of behavior is a huge problem. Some people, for some unknown reason, gain satisfaction simply from the indicator that they are a winner rather than actually being a winner and accomplishing something.
Imagine if I went to the Tour de France with a motorcycle and they actually gave me the yellow jersey. This isn’t a situation where I still put in a lot of my own efforts and just used PEDs to get a boost. I straight up did nothing. No work, no accomplishment, no nothing. How could I possibly feel like a winner? I’d feel more like a winner if I rode it myself and came in last place. Just finishing even one stage legitimately would feel better since it’s so difficult.
What kind of mind does a person have where their joy is derived from a picture on the computer monitor saying “You Win!” even though that visual indicator is completely detached from reality.