Wordle 956

⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️ TOYER

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩 SHADY

⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️🟩 JUICY

⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️🟩 MUGGY

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BULKY

Time: 7-8 minutes

I got very lucky. There were a lot of possible answers after my fourth guess. I spent a lot of time thinking about it before I finally making my fifth guess.

This is the tenth game this month that I have started with 0.1.4. This is the third consecutive month that I have started at least ten games with 0.1.4. I have started at least ten games with 0.1.4 in 13 of the past 23 months.

That’s it for Jan. I finished the month with an average score of 4.03 which is the same as my overall average score if you don’t include unsuccessful games and slightly lower if you do.

This is the eleventh consecutive month that I have finished ten or more games in 4 guesses. I have finished at least ten games in 4 guesses in 19 of the past 23 months. 

I finished 15 games in 4 guesses which is one shy of my record. At one point it looked like I might set a new personal high but I only finished two of my last thirteen games in 4 guesses.

There were three games this month that took me 10 to 15 minutes to complete but none that took me more than 15 minutes to complete. 

I finished all five games that I started with 0.2.3 in 4 guesses. That makes this the first month since Dec 2022 that I have not started at least one game with 0.2.3 and finished it in 3 guesses. This is the fourth time in the past 23 months that I have finished a month without starting at least one game with 0.2.3 and finishing it in 3 guesses.

Games played: 708

Winning streak: 267

Wordle 955

⬛️⬛️🟩🟨🟨 AMPLE

🟨🟨🟩🟩⬛️ LEPER

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EXPEL

I had my doubts about my second guess but it proved to be very helpful even though it wasn’t the answer.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 1.2.2 and finished it in 3 guesses. I have only seen this combination of start and finish thirteen times in more than 700 games.

Games played: 707

Winning streak: 266

Wordle 954

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨 KNIVE

⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️ CHEAP

🟩⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️ LOWER

🟩🟩⬛️⬛️🟩 LEFTY

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEGGY

Time: 5-6 minutes

This is the tenth time this month that my next to last guess has been 3.0.2. This is just the second month that I have had ten or more games in which my next to last guess has been 3.0.2.

Games played: 706

Winning streak: 265

Wordle 953

🟨⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ BLOAT

⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️ PUBIC

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EMBER

Time: 2-3 minutes

I had doubts about my third guess but it was the first word that occurred to me that fit.

This is the eighth time my next to last guess has been 1.0.4. The last time this happened was in Sep 2023.

Games played: 705

Winning streak: 264

Wordle 952

⬛️🟨⬛️🟨🟨 TAMES

⬛️🟨🟩🟨⬛️ LEASH

🟩⬛️🟩⬛️🟩 SPARE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SNAKE

Time: 4-5 minutes

I have seen answers that are past tense that end in D but I think I have yet to see one that is present tense that ends in S. I wonder why that is?

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.3.2 and finished it in 4 guesses. Overall this is just the 13th time I have started a game with 0.3.2 and finished it in 4 guesses and just the second time this streak.

Games played: 704

Winning streak: 263

Wordle 951

⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️ TRADE

⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️⬛️ MANGY

⬛️⬛️🟩🟨🟨 SHOAL

🟩⬛️🟩🟨⬛️ AIOLI

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ALOOF

Time: 13-14 minutes

I’m happy to have finished this game successfully.

Games played: 703

Winning streak: 262

Wordle 950

🟨⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ LUGER

⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️🟨 SPOIL

🟩🟩🟩⬛️⬛️ BLOAT

🟩🟩🟩⬛️⬛️ BLOOD

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BLOCK

Time: 3-4 minutes

This is the first time this month I have started a game with 0.1.4 and finished it in 5 guesses. This is the third consecutive month that I have started at least one game with 0.1.4 and finished it in 5 guesses. I have started at least one game with 0.1.4 and finished it in 5 guesses in 21 of the past 23 months.

Games played: 702

Winning streak: 261

Wordle 949

⬛️🟨🟨🟨🟨 SLICE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RELIC

Time: 5 minutes

I can’t believe how close I was with my first guess.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.4.1. This is the second time this streak and fourth time overall that I have started a game with 0.4.1.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.4.1 and finished it in 2 guesses. This is the second time this streak and second time overall that I have started a game with 0.4.1 and finished it in 2 guesses.

This is the first game I have finished in 2 guesses this month. This is the 25th time I have finished a game in 2 guesses. I have finished at least one game in 2 guesses in 15 of the past 23 months.

This is the fourth time I have had 5G games on consecutive days. 

This is the first time this month, fourth time this streak, and seventh time overall that I have finished a 5G game in 2 guesses.

Games played: 701

Winning streak: 260

Wordle 948

⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️ BULGE

⬛️🟨⬛️🟨⬛️ CLASP

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STILL

Time: 1-2 minutes

I had my doubts about my third guess, because it ended with a double letter but I decided to go with it anyway.

This is my first 5G game this month. This is the sixth consecutive month that I have had at least one 5G game. I have had at least one 5G game in 20 of the past 23 months. 

I went 50 games without a 5G game prior to this game. My longest stretch to date without a 5G game has been 59 games in length.

This is the fifteenth 5G game of my current streak. I had fifteen 5G games during my eighth streak (213 games). My fifteenth 5G game during my eighth streak happened in the 209th game of that streak.

Games played: 700

Winning streak: 259

This is my 700th game of Wordle. Here are some stats.

For the first time (in my last 100 games) I finished more than 50 games in 4 guesses. I finished twice as many games in 4 guesses as I did in 3 guesses, another first. I finished more games in 4 guesses or less, than I have in any previous round of 100 games. 

Wordle 947

🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ TOPIC

🟩⬛️🟨⬛️🟨 TRADE

🟩🟨⬛️🟨⬛️ TAMES

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TWEAK

Time: 10-11 minutes

I spent most of my time on my fourth guess. It took me several minutes to come to the realization that the answer might start with TW.

Games played: 699

Winning streak: 258

Wordle 946

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ BUILD

🟨🟨⬛️🟩⬛️ ORATE

⬛️🟩🟩🟩⬛️ FORTY

⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩 WORTH

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 NORTH

Time: 1-2 minutes

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.0.5 and finished it in 5 guesses. This is the fourth consecutive month that I have started at least one game with 0.0.5 and finished it in 5 guesses. I have started at least one game with 0.0.5 and finished it in 5 guesses in 13 of the past 23 months.

Games played: 698

Winning streak: 257

Wordle 945

🟨🟨⬛️🟨⬛️ GRIEF

🟩⬛️🟨🟨🟨 LUGER

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LARGE

Time: 1-2 minutes

Once again I was a little sloppy and played a letter in the same place in my second guess as in my first even though I had been warned it couldn’t go there.

This is just the tenth time that my game has been dominated by an equal number of green and yellow letters. This is the fourth time it has happened in my current streak which is more than in any other streak.

This is the sixth time this streak that I have started a game with 0.3.2 and finished it in 3 guesses. I started six games with 0.3.2 that I finished in 3 guesses during my eighth streak (213 games). The sixth time it happened was in the 212th game of that streak.

Games played: 697

Winning streak: 256

Wordle 944

⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️⬛️ LIVER

🟩🟩🟩⬛️⬛️ THICK

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 THING

Time: 2-3 minutes

That was a lot easier than I expected it to be after my first guess. It also ended my streak of games that I finished in 4 guesses.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.1.4 and finished it in 3 guesses. This is the 18th consecutive month that I have started at least one game with 0.1.4 and finished it in 3 guesses. I have started at least one game with 0.1.4 and finished it in 3 guesses in 21 of the past 23 months.

Games played: 696

Winning streak: 255

Wordle 943

⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️🟨 VENAL

⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️🟩 BULGE

🟩🟨⬛️⬛️🟩 SLICE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STOLE

Time: 4-5 minutes

This is the seventh consecutive game that I have finished in 4 guesses. This is now my longest streak of games that I have finished in 4 guesses.

Games played: 695

Winning streak: 254

Wordle 942

⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️ SHONE

⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️ FOAMY

🟨🟩⬛️⬛️🟨 TOPIC

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 COURT

Time: 14-15 minutes

This is the first game this month that took me more than 9 minutes to complete. I spent a lot of time, probably more than half, on my fourth guess.

This is the sixth consecutive game that I have finished in 4 guesses. This ties my record for longest streak of games that I finished in 4 guesses. This is the third time that I have had a streak of games that I finished in 4 guesses reach this point.

Games played: 694

Winning streak: 253

Wordle 941

🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ BARIC

🟩🟨⬛️⬛️⬛️ BOUGE

🟩🟩🟩⬛️⬛️ BLOOM

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BLOND

Time: 2-3 minutes

This is the 14th time this streak that I have started a game with 1.0.4 and finished it in 4 guesses. I started 14 games with 1.0.4 that I finished in 4 guesses during my eighth streak (213 games). It was during the 211th game of my eighth streak that I started a game with 1.0.4 and finished it in 4 guesses for the 14th time.

Games played: 693

Winning streak: 252

Wordle 940

⬛️🟨🟨⬛️⬛️ PLUKE

⬛️🟩⬛️🟨⬛️ BUILD

⬛️🟩🟨🟩🟩 MULCH

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LUNCH

Time: 1-2 minutes

This is the tenth game this month that I have finished in 4 guesses. This is the eleventh consecutive month that I have finished at least 10 games in 4 guesses. I have finished at least 10 games in 4 guesses in 19 of the past 23 months.

Games played: 692

Winning streak: 251

Wordle 939

⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️ SHOER

⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️ LOFTY

⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️🟨 WOMAN

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DOING

Time: 8-9 minutes

I considered playing a word that ended with ING after my second guess but I didn’t put much effort in (at that time) into finding one. DOING didn’t occur to me until after my third guess.

This is the 250th game of my current streak. Here are some stats. 

Games played: 691

Winning streak: 250

Wordle 938

🟨⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ APING

⬛️🟨🟩🟩⬛️ CHART

🟩⬛️🟩🟩⬛️ HOARY

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEARD

Time: 1-2 minutes

This is the first game I have started with 0.1.4 this month. This is the 23rd consecutive month that I have started at least one game with 0.1.4. 

This game ends my streak of games without starting a game with 0.1.4 at 16 games. This is the furthest I have gotten into a month before starting my first game with 0.1.4. The previous record was 12 days which happened in May 2023.

This is the first game this month that I have started with 0.1.4 and finished in 4 guesses. This is the 23rd consecutive month that I have started at least one game with 0.1.4 and finished it in 4 guesses.

This game ends the streak of games I had going without starting a game with 0.1.4 and finishing it in 4 guesses, at 33 games. My record for this kind of streak is 38 games.

Games played: 690

Winning streak: 249

Wordle 937

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ AXING

⬛️🟩🟩⬛️⬛️ POUCH

⬛️🟩🟩⬛️⬛️ WOULD

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ROUTE

Time: 3-4 minutes

I have started more games with 0.1.4 than I have any other combination of colored letters. This is my 16th consecutive game without starting a game with 0.1.4. This ties the high mark for this sort of streak. This has happened just twice before. The other two times I had streaks of this sort reach this length were in Jun 2022 and May 2023.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.0.5 and finished it in 4 guesses. This is the eleventh consecutive month that I have started at least one game with 0.0.5 and finished it in 4 guesses. I have started at least one game with 0.0.5 and finished it in 4 guesses in 20 of the past 23 months.

This is the first 0Y game this month that I have finished in 4 guesses. I have finished almost a third (19/61) of my 0Y games in 4 guesses. I have finished at least one 0Y game in 4 guesses in 14 of the past 23 months.

Games played: 689

Winning streak: 248

Wordle 936

🟨⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️ RAINY

⬛️⬛️🟩🟨⬛️ SHIRT

⬛️🟩🟩⬛️🟨 DRIVE

⬛️🟩🟩🟩⬛️ CRIER

⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩 GRIEF

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BRIEF

Time: 5-6 minutes

BRIEF? Not exactly.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 1.1.3 and finished it in 6 guesses. This is the third time that I have started a game with 1.1.3 and finished it in 6 guesses. One of the other two games that I started with 1.1.3 and finished in 6 guesses happened during my current streak and the other one happened a year ago in Jan 2023 during my eighth streak. 

Games played: 688

Winning streak: 247

Wordle 935

⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️ CHAIN

⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️🟨 SHOUT

🟩🟩🟨⬛️⬛️ THEME

🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️ THREE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 THREW

Time: 2-3 minutes

I probably should have had this one in 4 guesses. If only I had been paying attention. *sigh*

This is the first game I have finished in 5 guesses this month. This is the 23rd consecutive month that I have finished at least one game in 5 guesses. 

This game ended a streak of games I had going without finishing a game in 5 guesses without setting or tying my current record. This streak lasted 21 games. My longest streak of lasted 23 games.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 1.0.4 and finished it in 5 guesses. I have started at least one game with 1.0.4 and finished it in 5 guesses in 13 of the past 23 months.

Games played: 687

Winning streak: 246

Wordle 934

🟨⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨 ROYAL

⬛️🟨⬛️🟨⬛️ BLURT

🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩 LIVER

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LINER

Time: 4-5 minutes

I like the symmetry.

Today is the ninth day of the month. Nine days into last month I wrote something about the way things were trending. The trend stopped pretty abruptly after that. I think I am going to hold off on pointing out how things are trending so far this month. :)

Games played: 686

Winning streak: 245

Wordle 933

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩🟩 CORAL

⬛️⬛️🟩🟩🟩 VENAL

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FINAL

Time: 1-2 minutes

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 2.0.3. This is the ninth consecutive month that I have started at least one game with 2.0.3. I have started at least one game with 2.0.3 in 16 of the past 23 months. 

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 2.0.3 and finished it in 3 guesses. Half of the games (5/10) that I have started with 2.0.3 and finished in 3 guesses have happened during my current streak.

This is my first 0Y game this month. This is my 22nd consecutive month that I have had at least one 0Y game. This is the 16th 0Y game that I have finished in 3 guesses. I have finished just over a quarter (16/60) of my 0Y games in 3 guesses. I have finished just over a quarter (7/25) of my 0Y games this streak in 3 guesses.

Games played: 685

Winning streak: 244

Wordle 932

🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ SQUAD

🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨 SPLIT

🟩⬛️🟩🟩⬛️ SHONE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STONY

Time: 1-2 minutes

I goofed and forgot to make sure that my third guess included a T.

This is the first game this month that I have started with 1.0.4. Thus is the second consecutive month that I have started at least one game with 1.0.4. I have started at least one game with 1.0.4 in 22 of the past 23 months. 

This is the first game this month that I have started a game with 1.0.4 and finished it in 4 guesses. This is the second consecutive month that I have started at least one game with 1.0.4 and finished it in 4 guesses. I have started games with 1.0.4 that I finished in 4 guesses in 17 of the past 23 months.

Ninety percent (27/30) of the games that I have started with 1.0.4 and finished in 4 guesses have occurred during my eighth or tenth/current streak. This seems disproportionate considering that these two streaks account for only two-thirds (456/684) of the total number of games I have played. 

Games played: 684

Winning streak: 243

Wordle 931

⬛️🟨⬛️🟨🟨 SCUBA

🟨🟩⬛️⬛️🟨 BARIC

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CABLE

Time: 1-2 minutes

Thus is the first time this month that I have finished a game in 3 guesses. This is the 23rd consecutive month that I have finished at least one game in 3 guesses.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.3.2 and finished it in 3 guesses. This is the third consecutive month that I have started at least one game with 0.3.2 and finished it in 3 guesses. I have started at least one game with 0.3.2 and finished it in 3 guesses in 15 of the past 23 months.

I have finished more than half (19/36) of the games I have started with 0.3.2 in 3 guesses.

Games played: 683

Winning streak: 242

Wordle 930

⬛️⬛️🟨🟨⬛️ VAULT

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️ SHOER

⬛️🟨🟨⬛️🟩 PLUKE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LUNGE

Time: 4-5 minutes

I wasn’t thinking straight when I made my second and third guesses. My second guess should have included A and U. My third guess should not have had U in the same place as in my first guess. Despite all that I somehow finished this game in 4 guesses. Crazy.

This is the sixth time in the past seven games that I have finished in 4 guesses. I don’t track this sort of thing but I’m pretty sure this has happened before.

Games played: 682

Winning streak: 241

Wordle 929

🟨⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️ CLOAK

⬛️⬛️🟩🟨⬛️ PEACH

🟩🟩🟩⬛️⬛️ SCARY

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SCANT

Time: 6-7 minutes

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.2.3. This is the 23rd consecutive month that I have started at least one game with 0.2.3.

This is the first game this month that I have started with 0.2.3 and finished in 4 guesses. This is the eleventh consecutive month that I have started at least one game with 0.2.3 and finished it in 4 guesses. I have started at least one game with 0.2.3 and finished it in 4 guesses in 22 of the past 23 months.

This is the 22nd game this streak that I have started with 0.2.3 and finished in 4 guesses. I started 22 games with 0.2.3 which I finished in 4 guesses during my eighth streak (213 games). It took me 207 games to reach this mark during my eighth streak.

Games played: 681

Winning streak: 240

Wordle 928

⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️🟩 MORAL

⬛️🟨🟨🟨⬛️ GIRLY

⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩 SWIRL

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TWIRL

Time: 5 minutes

My second guess helped the cause but in other respects was not a good guess. I clearly wasn’t thinking clearly when I played it.

Games played: 680

Winning streak: 239

Wordle 927

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ SWOLE

⬛️⬛️🟨🟨🟨 CHAIN

⬛️🟨🟩🟩⬛️ RAINY

🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩 AXING

🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩 APING

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AGING

Time: 7-8 minutes

I got a little bit nervous after my fourth guess. I saw two possible answers but I wasn’t certain that there weren’t other possible answers that I wasn’t seeing.

This is the first game this month that I have started with 0.0.5. This is the eleventh consecutive month that I have started at least one game with 0.0.5. I have started at least one game with 0.0.5 in 21 of the past 23 months.

This is the ninth time that I have started a game with 0.0.5 and finished it in 6 guesses. I have never had this combination of start and finish occur more than once in a calendar month or in consecutive months. Four of the nine times I have started a game with 0.0.5 and finished it in 6 guesses occurred in my current streak.

Games played: 679

Winning streak: 238

Wordle 926

🟩⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️ MOUTH

🟩⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️ MINUS

🟩🟩🟩⬛️⬛️ MURKY

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MURAL

Time: 1-2 minutes

This is the first game this month that I have started with 1.1.3. This is the 23rd consecutive month that I have started at least one game with 1.1.3. 

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 1.1.3 and finished it in 4 guesses. I have started at least one game with 1.1.3 and finished it in 4 guesses in 18 of the past 23 months. 

Games played: 678

Winning streak: 237