In our office, we eat salads in the lunch room and discuss our weekend plans. I like my coworkers but the conversations become boring because of the years we spend at the same place of work. Thus, I decided to bring some fun to our lives. I visit wordleunlimited.dev, make a 60-second challenge of the chosen word for my nearest coworker and have some fun during my lunch break.
The Mechanics of the Race Are Quite Simple
It takes little effort to learn the mechanics of the game since you need to watch only one race to figure it out. All you need to do is to visit the Challenge a Friend section of wordleunlimited.dev, choose the word which contains 4-7 letters and which you want your coworker to guess, set up the time limit of 30 or 60 seconds and press the Create link button. Then you need to share the link via messengers or just show it to your coworker. He or she opens the link, accepts the challenge and the timer starts counting down as soon as they start guessing the word. If the word is solved correctly – your coworker wins. Otherwise, you win.
The Choice of the Word Is the Key Point of the Race
Choosing the word is the key point of the game because either your coworker solves it in 15 seconds and thinks that they have achieved incredible success or cannot solve it and decides never to play this game again. Thus, having been playing these races for several months, I have developed the skill of choosing such word which is hard to solve but still can be solved. Quilt, boxer, olive, onion – these are the words which everybody knows but are tricky because of the letters positioning and vowels. Three months ago, I did not have such skill.
This Race Helps Me to Communicate with New People
This game has helped me to start the communication with the people I never spoke to. For example, there is this one guy who works in our accounting department and I have been working here for two years already but we never had any meaningful conversation. One day, he saw me playing this game with someone and asked me what I was doing. I challenged him to a 60-second race and he liked it. Now we play the game regularly and become good colleagues thanks to it. There is something in this game helping to overcome the awkwardness of the small talks since both participants focus on the word on the screen rather than on what to say to impress each other.
60 Seconds Are Exactly What You Need
Selection of 60 seconds as the time limit is the result of the several experiments which I have conducted. This time period is enough for a person to feel that they have a chance to solve the word but at the same time, it is short enough to make even the most unwilling colleague agree to take part in the game. Nobody likes playing the 10-minute game during the lunch break since they still have the lunch and messages to check. However, 60 seconds plus 60 seconds needed for the return of the challenge plus 1 minute for the trash talking between the games equal to the 3-minute activity which can be easily inserted between the bites of a sandwich.
The Trash Talking Is the Part of the Office Culture
Over time, the culture related to the game develops by itself. People boast about their solving streaks, somebody says that they solved the 7-letter word in 22 seconds and asks for the proof. Some rivalries appear between departments. Our marketing manager chooses only food-related words since she thinks that she is hungry during her lunch break. This is exactly how it was in the offices before the smartphone appearance. This is our game night without any special preparation and sending calendar invitations.
Why the Time Limit Is So Important?
The unlimited mode of the game is quite a relaxing activity which suits it perfectly. However, the addition of the time limit completely changes the state in the head of the participant. Heart rate increases a little bit and the person feels the pressure of the clock. The speed of solving and typing becomes higher and the guessing strategy changes since there is no time for the analysis of the possible solutions anymore. This is exactly what turns 60-second race into the mini-sport and not into the puzzle to be solved. The opportunity to set the time limits for 30 seconds, 1 minute or 2 minutes provided by wordleunlimited.dev website allows us to change the difficulty level according to the opponent.
This Game Helps You to Become a Better Writer at Work
To be honest, this puzzle game has improved my skills in writing emails at work. Constant thoughts about the word structure, letter patterns and vowels combinations make my brain write faster. I noticed that I proofread my emails faster now since I detect typos automatically while writing them. My coworkers reported the same side effects. It is not the main goal of our lunch routine but it is useful. One word race a day keeps the grammar mistakes away or something like that. Human resources department has not complained about our lunch activities yet.
Conclusion
If you want to make your workplace lunch routine more interesting and do not want to embarrass your colleagues with the team-building exercises, try to organize the 60-second word race in wordleunlimited.dev. It is absolutely free, does not require the registration from anybody and works on any device your coworkers have in their hands. Just find some interested colleague and challenge him with the tricky link. In the best case scenario, you will create the new office tradition and make some real friends in other departments. In the worst case, you will spend the nice 60 seconds during your lunch break. Both options are definitely better than another boring lunch with forced small talks about the weather.
