Blind Luck, Coincidence, or Something Else?

What is this thing with words and me? Three days ago I 'lost' for the first time at Wordle. I was surprised how the loss affected me, even though it was one of those fluke times when the same three letters in the same order are found in multiple words. If I had been thinking poetically, I would have known the word to bring me down would have been "lowly"!! And not lobby, or lorry, or loggy...

But seriously, is it possible that someone could pick up on the correct word by somehow listening to the thoughts of others who played the game earlier in the day and so know what the word is?

I do believe it is possible to tune in to someone else's thoughts. It happened to me vividly many years ago. I was working at the Forensic Lab in Kingston, and had recently broken up with the love of my (then still young) life, when I heard in the the news that he and his new lady friend had been shot and injured by an intruder into his home. The woman's name was not mentioned in the press. A few nights after the news broke, I dreamed a 7-digit number. It seemed like it could be a phone number, and I couldn't get the number out of my head, so that day at work I dialed it. The phone was answered by a switchboard operator. I realized there was one person I knew who worked at that business, so I asked to speak to her. It turns out she had been thinking of me and wanting to call me (she didn't have my home number), because she thought I was the one who was injured in the home invasion.

Has something like this ever happened to you? What do you think? Here's a song about the world I inhabit :)