"Alec Laurie was in a state of panic for several hours on Monday morning. It wasn't a work or family matter that had him checking his phone in between every client call. Instead, Laurie was struggling to remain calm after seeing his 292-day Wordle streak suddenly disappear. "It was actually, genuinely stressful," said the 43-year-old partner of a boutique executive search firm in Manchester, England."
"The game - which has millions of weekly users, according to the Times - resets every night at midnight local time and tracks players' win streaks. Miss a day or fail to solve the puzzle by identifying a five-letter word in six tries, and the streak ends. This meant anyone who hadn't finished Monday's puzzle prior to the outage had to hope the game would return before midnight, while those who had solved it could only pray their streaks would be restored."
An Amazon Web Services outage disrupted Wordle and other online services such as Snapchat, Zoom, and Reddit early Monday morning. Many Wordle players found the game no longer recognized their play history, leading to lost visible win streaks. Wordle resets every night at midnight local time and tracks consecutive daily wins; missing a day or failing to solve the puzzle ends a streak. Players who had not completed that day's puzzle before the outage risked losing their streak unless the game returned before midnight. The New York Times encouraged subscribers to try logging in later and said steps were underway to resolve the issue. AWS said it mitigated the underlying issue.
Read at Business Insider
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