Wordle LEETS PIQUE #1337

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Intro

1337 has a storied history in coding, being the signifier of 13375p34K aka leetspeak, or how the 1337 h4x0rs “elite hackers” obfuscate messages to one another:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

Wordle #1337, 15 February 2025

Thanks to @Eye Are, @Documentalista, @Julia, @KP, @Jn and everyone else for amplifying and/or answering the call to come play with the ELEET crowd!

13375p34k \/\/r4p post: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/45bce7

We had a pretty good turnout for a quickie one-day theme on a fairly obscure topic:

  1. @Adsy - inexplicably EMU'd 🦤 (who'd a thunk it?)
  2. @Kenny - PWNED
  3. @Couchpumpkin - SLIDE RULES
  4. @Documentalista - PWNED
  5. @WT - LEETS
  6. @Dez - PWNED HACKY
  7. @WIXIBAN - PEARL NURDY
  8. @Ginny - HELPS CODER
  9. @Myle - LEETS PIQUI
  10. @StillSeasonal - LEETS PIQUE
  11. @Eye Are - ELITE
  12. @BerniceDog - A B CODER D E loop
  13. @KP - CODER ELITE
  14. @SofKnox - LEETS PIQUE
  15. @Pebbles - WAREZ
  16. @Julia - LEETS PIQUE
  17. @ACF - LEETS PIQUE
  18. @Freddi - LEETS
  19. @Razhaa! - LEETS PIQUE

A couple who looked like they came up with the idea on their own (no real suprise, 13375p34k is a cultural phenomenon about wordplay after all)...

  1. @Gabe D - ELITE
  2. @Georg - ELITE

And an "almost" or simply a well-wisher or two :-D

  1. @Richard (Malmesbury, UK) - https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/45apr8
  2. @Jn - https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/45aqm0
  3. @Trader Kate - https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/45be06
    • Who also gets credit for reminding me of PWNED which I HAD to play!

On 9 February 2025, having noticed that Wordle #1337 was approaching, I posted the first call to recognize that upcoming 1337-d4`/ with a one-shot theme, and we had a pretty good thread coming up with ideas.

The next day I posted this below (roughly), seeded this file with it, and the discussion turned up even more possibilities:

I know there’s a whole lotta THEME MANIA going on right now, but Wordle #1337 is for me an irresistible chance to play a one-day, once-an-epoch theme related to LEETS PIQUE and/or coding culture in general.

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Thanks to all who chimed in yesterday here: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/455sto … so far the early favorite combo is:

ELITE HACKS

I am leaning towards the late breaking:

NOOBS PWNED

but I also like:

CODER SHACK

and of course

LEETS PIQUE

puts our own Addle-layed Mondegreen Trap spin on it. See the inevitable: https://rentry.co/wordle-leets-pique

More theme Wordleables, in order of 1337/\/35s (leetness or in other words by my casual, completely arbitrary ranking).

LEETS
ELEET
WAREZ
SCRIP KIDDY (look up “script kiddies”)
HEXER
CODES
LINUX
HACKY
NERDS
NERDY
SLANG
DEBUG
BUGGY
PROGS
EXECS

CANDY CRUSH is a cute crossover opportunity for those committed to Valentine’s CANDY on Saturday. I haven’t looked yet to see if there’s any low-hanging fruit for a TUTU or FF crossover play.


Initially on EMU hold, this was posted in reply to the above:

I missed CRUFT and KLUGE first time around. Both frequently used.

Even FUBAR though that really appears as foo and bar used as nonsense variables for discussion purposes.

NONCE crosses over into CRYPTo territory.

Also, traditional 1337 coding plays with the GLYPHs of various characters to transform words into leet.

Oh dear, and if you’re dealing with an ID-10T you might make use of LUSER in your infernal report 🤦

I think that last sentence relegated this post to permanent EMU'd status

The Jargon File

More about original hacker argot and history can be found in the Jargon File:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3008/pg3008-images.html

It has a long history itself:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File

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Pub: 10 Feb 2025 17:26 UTC

Edit: 21 Feb 2025 06:42 UTC

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