Kamala Harris plays Wordle as a “brainwasher” between official duties and has never forgotten to guess the five-letter word of the day, but she can’t share success with friends because her official phone doesn’t allow her to send text messages.
The vice president discussed his love of the online game, created by Wales-born Josh Wardle in an interview with Ringer.
“I have 100%,” she said, “and I intend to keep it that way.”
She also said her winning streak was only 48 because “he was confused when he was transferred to the New York Times”.
Wardle designed Wordle for his partner. The Times bought it in January at a low seven-figure price tag.
Wordle players are given six chances to guess one word from five letters a day, colored squares showing letters in the right slot or contained in the word elsewhere.
Harris said he makes an average of four assumptions and starts with the same word every day: “Notes. NOTES. ”
She added: “I think you have to have a healthy combination of consonants and vowels and a lot of words come with S. For example, there were S and E today, I think.”
Harris spoke on Friday when the word of the day was “shame.”
The vice president said she sometimes played while traveling and “must have played it when I was in Poland.”
Harris visited Poland in March to support US allies amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“But we won’t talk about it, will we?” she said.
Wordle, Harris said, “is like a brain cleanser. So it is in the middle of very long days, successive meetings on very intense issues. If I have a break, let’s say people are late or my little 25 minutes for lunch, sometimes while eating, I’ll understand Wordle.
She also said she has tried to transform her staff – a body subject to constant reports of drama and resentment – into the game.
“Some of them know it,” she said. “Some of them laugh at it because they didn’t know I knew it and that I was playing it. So that was really funny. And then there are others who, you know, in a time of stress, I said, “Maybe you need to learn how to play Wordle.”
Harris also said that her staff was very competitive in the game, but “what I love about my team is that they don’t talk to each other.”
However, the vice president is not competing with anyone but her husband, Doug Emhoff, because she cannot share her results as a normal consumer.
“My phone won’t let me write to anyone,” Harris said, “which is sad.”
Harris praised the “smart design” of the game, which she said offered her “just a nice kind of palate cleansing in the midst of many other things.”
Asked if there were any examples of stressful times Wardell came to the rescue, Harris said: “They are all classified. I’m sorry. “
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