Pete's Log: Party Years
Entry #2468, (Word Games and Puzzles)(posted when I was 45 years old.)
Time for another one of these. For the New Year, YEARS seemed the obvious candidate, but then on New Year's Eve I saw PARTY all the way at #11 compared to #27 for YEARS. But YEARS rallied on New Year's Day, hitting #7 compared to #12 for PARTY.
I didn't start tracking PARTY until the 31st, so my graph is incomplete again.
Valentine's Day should be interesting: I'm thinking CANDY and HEART so far, but HEART is already one of the top 15 most popular starting words. HEART is usually chosen by about 0.8% of Wordle players, and when MERRY and YEARS both broke the top 10 on their respective holidays, they got about 1.5% of the vote. So I don't think HEART will do much better than fifth place, since #1 ADIEU rakes in more than 7% of the vote and 2-5 are all above 3%. But we shall see. Stay tuned to find out!