Wordle game saves octogenarian American from hostage crisis


An American woman has been rescued from an hour-long hostage crisis after her daughter realized she hadn’t sent her her daily score on the recent and popular ‘Wordle’ word game.

It allows millions of players to pass the time racking their brains (more or less). Obviously, it saves lives too. Thanks to the game wordle, an American octogenarian was rescued from a hostage situation that lasted several hours, according to the local branch of the CBS television channel. Denyse Holt, who lives in Lincolnwood, a suburb of Chicago in the northern United States, was alone at home the night of February 5 when a man broke in and threatened her with a pair of scissors. He held her hostage for almost 17 hours.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, her daughter, a Seattle resident, was waiting like every day to receive her mother’s score on the popular Wordle game. The principle: find a word of five letters every day, in six tries maximum. But the message indicating its result – a ritual well known to users – never arrived. Worried, she decided to call Lincolnwood Police for a routine visit to her mother’s home. Officers then discovered that she was being held against her will.

According to Denyse Holt, the man, who was naked and bloody after breaking a window to get in, assured her he wouldn’t hurt her, but he forced her to take a shower and then a bath – fully clothed – with him before locking him in the basement. “I didn’t think I was going to survive”, the octogenarian told CBS. Lincolnwood police suspect the hostage taker may be mentally ill, the outlet also reported. The hostage situation remained deadlocked for several hours before SWAT, a police response unit, used a stun gun to incapacitate the suspect and save the old lady. Denyse Holt, in shock after this ordeal, was not injured.



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