It began, as these things often do, with a casual boast over coffee:
“I got it in one,” said Mike, smugly sipping his long mac. “The word was STORK.”
A hush fell. Eyebrows lifted.
“STORK?” repeated Caro, incredulous. “I don’t remember STORK.”
“Nor do I”, said Anne, betraying a degree of Gallic fervour.
“Definitely not,” chimed in Ger. “I’d remember a bird delivering babies.”
The debate flapped into full flight.
Some were adamant: STORK had never graced the Wordle grid.
Others, fewer in number but, like Moi, clear in their recall because “it wasn’t STORM”, insisted it had.
Mike, meanwhile, was beginning to look like a man who’d guessed STORK on a whim and accidentally stumbled into Wordle glory – or feared he may simply have dreamed the whole thing up.
Enter Copilot, summoned like a digital oracle.
“STORK was indeed the Wordle word on August 5, 2025,” it confirmed, with unnerving calm.
“It even conformed with the clue.”
The group froze.
“The clue. What clue?” they asked in unison, like a choir of confused crossword solvers.
“There are clues?”
Turns out, yes. There are Wordle help sites. Daily ones. With hints. And meanings. And starting letters.
The group was scandalised.
“Isn’t that cheating?” muttered Caro.
“Could be helpful if you’ve just missed on line five,” offered Anne, now visibly intrigued.
Ger was simply speechless.
Moi just smiled.
Mike, still basking in his accidental genius, leaned back.
“You learn something new every day,” he said.
“Especially when you get it in one.”
* By Michael Barker
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