Streaking

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To streak or not to streak?
I play Wordle and, for a long time, they (whoever “they” are) kept track of my success (or lack thereof). It kept track of the number of games I had played without interruption. Kept track of my streak.
It created a lot of pressure.
Then, one day, the tracking stopped. I had never signed up or opened an account, yet I was tracked. And one day, I was asked to sign up and, without doing so, the tracking - and the pressure - stopped.
I still play pretty regularly but I play for the pleasure, not the pressure.

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Fred Klein

And I thought you were blogging about more risqué streaking :)
Daniel Schwartz

I never got into Wordle. I can remember frequent posts about it on Facebook which bothered me during the pandemic and then they pretty much stopped. My feeling was, if you enjoy, play it. But no need to post about it.on social media.Was that part of the pressure, to show your results?
Rich Slomovitz

I'm a daily Wordler. Last week after 800+ games, they finally used my starting word (Raise) and I got it in 1! Have to find a new starting word.

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