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After months of building a case, Jimmy Kimmel is finally getting his day in court. The defendant? American comedy icon Carol Burnett—accused of cheating at Wordle.

Burnett, a four-time guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, is scheduled to return tonight—Wednesday, November 5—setting the stage for a friendly confrontation between host and legend. She’s on the show to promote the latest season of Palm Royale, but if Kimmel’s past cross-examinations are any indication, the real headline may come from the Wordle witness stand.

Kimmel’s suspicions were first raised in April, when Julia Louis-Dreyfus appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and casually revealed that she’s part of a starry group text where Burnett posts her daily Wordle scores—and that the 92-year-old TV legend regularly nails the day’s five-letter word in just two guesses. “Carol gets it in two all the time,” Louis-Dreyfus said, shrugging. “She’s Carol Burnett. She’s very talented.”

Kimmel wasn’t buying it. “She must be cheating,” he replied. “I mean, that’s too much—to get two all the time.”

Since then, the ABC host has questioned a parade of witnesses who are on the same text chain as Louis-Dreyfus. When Burnett’s Palm Royale costar Allison Janney guested on the show, Kimmel broached the subject the moment she sat down, telling the actress that Burnett’s success rate “seems impossible.”

“I think it is impossible,” Janney replied, before theorizing that Burnett’s husband, Brian Miller, might be her silent accomplice: “I think Brian plays… and then she sees what didn’t work.”

Charlize Theron, another member of Burnett’s Wordle group chat, didn’t mince words either: “She’s a f*cking cheat,” Theron said—though she quickly added that she was honored just to be on the text chain.

When reached by LateNighter, Burnett was quick to reject Kimmel’s charges. “There’s no way you can cheat in Wordle,” she good-naturedly insisted.

Burnett has long been proud of her puzzle prowess. On Live with Kelly and Mark last year, she claimed to have guessed the word in one try—seven times. One of those, she explained, was pure coincidence: “I’m in a hotel and I need some more towels, so I put in “towel”… and that was it!”

Whether coincidence, intuition, or something more sinister, Kimmel—who is, in fact, friends with Burnett—will finally get the chance to cross-examine her on TV tonight. The rest of America’s Wordle players will be watching—and probably wishing they could get it in two, too.