Pete's Log: Themed Wordle
Entry #2455, (Word Games and Puzzles)(posted when I was 45 years old.)
I recently came across the Vanity Fair article Inside The New York Times' Big Bet on Games, which is interesting enough as is, but it included the tidbit that after buying Wordle, they considered doing special words: "She briefly experimented with a themed word—FEAST on Thanksgiving—to the ire of some players."
Interesting to know, given my recent holiday analysis.
I still haven't though of many five-letter non-proper-nouns for Christmas yet. The only one I've come up with so far is GIFTS. I used it this morning and then forgot to check its popularity. Luckily, thanks to the magic of private browser windows, I was able to check just now and see it clocked in as the 262nd most popular starting word today.