Wordle 1860

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩 SPECT

⬛️⬛️🟨🟨🟩 FLIRT

⬛️🟩🟨🟩🟩 DROIT

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ORBIT

Time 1:30

This was easy and relatively fast.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 1.0.4 and finished it in 4 guesses. This is the third month in a row that I have started at least one game with 1.0.4 and finished it in 4 guesses. I have started at least one game with 1.0.4 and finished it in 4 guesses in 40 of the past 53 months.

This is the 10th time this month that I have finished a game in 4 guesses. This is the 13th consecutive month that I have finished at least 10 games in 4 guesses. I have finished at least 10 games in 4 guesses in 45 of the past 53 months.

Games played: 1612

Winning streak: 70

Wordle 1859

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨 VIDEO

⬛️⬛️🟨🟩⬛️ SHORT

⬛️🟩⬛️🟩⬛️ COBRA

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LORRY

Time 7:40

I considered making LORRY my third guess but for whatever reason didn’t want to try it at that point, probably because it had two Rs.

Games played: 1611

Winning streak: 69

Wordle 1858

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ CAMEO

⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️🟨 DRIPS

🟩⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️ STING

🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩 SWILL

🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩 SKILL

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SHILL

Time 9:05

SHILL probably should have been my fourth guess. I had not tried H yet. I’m not sure wh I waited as long as I did to try it.

This is the fifth time that I have finished back to back games in 6 guesses. I have never finished three games in a row in 6 guesses.

I don’t plan on making a habit of playing words like DRIPS but this time I wanted to and it did help.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.0.5 and successfully finished it in 6 guesses. This is the second month in a row that I have started at least one game with 0.0.5 and successfully finished it in 6 guesses. This is the 24th time that I have started a game with 0.0.5 and successfully finished it in 6 guesses.

This is the third time during my current winning streak that I have started a game with 0.0.5 and successfully finished it in 6 guesses. My 10th winning streak (443 games) was the only one in which which this happened more times than during my current winning streak. I was 204 games into my 10th winning streak when it happened for the third time.

Games played: 1610

Winning streak: 68

Wordle 1857

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️ MOURN

⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️⬛️ CRASH

⬛️🟨🟨🟨⬛️ PERIL

⬛️🟩⬛️🟩🟩 TIGER

⬛️🟩⬛️🟩🟨 BIKED

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DIVER

Time 19:05

It was smart of me to turn off hard mode but I should have done it sooner and also I got lucky.

I probably should have turned off hard mode after my third guess. My fifth guess, in retrospect was not a very good one even though it did get me the D. A better fifth guess would probably have been VIBED. I would have been much more confident about making DIVER my sixth guess if VIBED had been my fifth one.

Getting back to reality, even after my fifth guess I saw at least three possible answers. DIVER was the first one that popped into my head so that’s the one I went with but I agonized over it quite a bit before finally giving it a try. Other possibilities I considered at that point were WIDER and RIDER. According to Wordlebot there was another possible word, EIDER.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.1.4 and successfully finished it in 6 guesses. I have started at least one game with 0.1.4 and successfully finished it in 6 guesses in 32 of the past 53 games.

Games played: 1609

Winning streak: 67

Wordle 1856

🟩🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️ CHOKE

🟩🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️ CHIMP

🟩🟩⬛️🟩⬛️ CHARD

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CHURN

Time 2:40

Words cannot describe how relieved I am that my first guess didn’t in any way predict my performance in this game.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 2.0.3. This is the third month in a row that I have started at least one game with 2.0.3. I have started at least one game with 2.0.3 in 39 of the past 53 months.

This is the first time this month and second month in a row that I have started at least one game with 2.0.3 and finished it in 4 guesses. This is the 14th time that I have started a game with 2.0.3 and finished it in 4 guesses.

This is the 11th 0Y game during my current winning streak. This ties the number of 0Y games during my 17th winning streak (133 games). The only winning streaks in which I have had more 0Y games than during my current streak are the three that lasted over 200 games each.

This is the third 0Y game I have had in the past four days. The only other time I have had this happen was in March 2023 (Mar 9, 10, 12). I once  had 0Y games on three consecutive days. It happened in February 2025 (Feb 19-21).

Games played: 1608

Winning streak: 66

Wordle 1855

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ CRANK

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩 FLUSH

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩 WEIGH

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BOOTH

Time 4:00

Three of the four words I played today are words that I have never played in the past. WEIGH is the only one that I have played before and this is the seventh time I have tried it. It was the answer the fifth time I played it, earlier this year, on 02/03/26.

This is the second time this month and 21st time overall that I have found just one letter in my first three guesses. This the third time that such a game has also been a 0Y game.

This is the seventh time that my next to last guess has been 1.0.4 and that I finished in 4 guesses. This is the first time that my next to last guess has been 1.0.4 and that I finished in 4 guesses and that it has been a 0Y game.

This is the 50th time that I have finished a 0Y game in 4 guesses.

Games played: 1607

Winning streak: 65

Wordle 1854

⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️ SMART

🟩🟨⬛️🟨⬛️ LAUGH

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEGAL

Time 6:35

This game took as long as it did for a couple reasons. First, I wanted my second guess to have just one vowel and five distinct letters. I probably spent a couple minutes looking for such a word, without success. I wound up settling for LAUGH.

Second, I thought of LEGAL almost immediately after my second guess but I would have preferred a word that didn’t have any letters repeated. I spent a couple minutes or more looking for such a word but eventually gave up and gave LEGAL a try. According to Wordlebot it was the only possible word left that I could play.

This game ends my streak of games that I started with 0.0.5 at four games. No new record. I will just have to settle for having put together two such streaks.

This is the first time this month that I have started a 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 48 of the past 53 months.

According to my records, which I know are incomplete because I am missing the data from my first 15 games, I have now played exactly 2500 different words. A little over 92% of those words have been played 5 times or less.

Games played: 1606

Winning streak: 64