Wordle 1930

🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ RELAX

🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ ROUGH

🟩🟩⬛️⬛️🟩 RISKY

🟩🟩⬛️🟨🟩 RIFTY

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RITZY

Time 14:05

There’s nothing RITZY about this game or the way I started the month but it got the job done. I spent a good chunk of my time on my fourth guess. My fourth guess helped me to find the answer and was a playable word. It was not a possible answer. There was, according to the bot, only one possible answer after my third guess. Just to be clear, RITZY did not come to mind until after my fourth guess.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 1.0.4. This is the 35th 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 55 of the past 56 months.

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 had at least one such game in 40 of the past 56 months but not last month.

I am now exactly 20 weeks into my current winning streak.

Games played: 1682

Winning streak: 140

Wordle 1929

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ UNPLY

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️ CHARM

⬛️🟨🟨⬛️⬛️ GRIST

⬛️🟩⬛️🟩🟩 WIDER

⬛️🟩⬛️🟩🟩 FIBER

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RIVER

Time 6:50

That was close! I thought about about turning off hard mode after my fourth guess but I didn’t. My fourth guess, according to the bot, narrowed down the possible answers to four words. I didn’t know that until after the fact, of course. Other words I thought about playing after my fourth guess included BIKER, FIVER, and FIXER but FIBER seemed like best choice because it had both B and F. RIVER didn’t occur to me until after my fifth guess.

I played 20 different letters in this game. This is the 13th time I have played exactly 20 different letters in a game and the 20th time that I have played twenty or more different letters in the course of a game.

This is the fifth time that I have successfully completed back to back games in 6 guesses. The last time it happened was March 24-25, 2026. See my game from 03/25/26 for more information on this phenomenon.

This is the first time this month and 25th time overall that I have started a game with 0.0.5 and successfully finished it in 6 guesses.

Games played: 1681

Winning streak: 139

That’s it for September. My average score this month was 4.1 which is worse than last month but better than all of the first seven months of 2026.

For the second time this year and second month in a row I finished the month with a positive +/- 4 score.

I started and ended the month with games that I successfully completed in 6 guesses. This is the fourth time that has happened. The prior months in which this has happened are Jun 2022, Jan 2025, and Jun 2026.

I finished 80 percent (24/30) of my games in 10 minutes or less. I had two games that it took me over 20 minutes to complete. This is the first time since Oct 2023 that I have finished more than one game in a calendar month in over 20 minutes.

I started more games with 0.0.5 than I did with 0.1.4. This has happened before but only a few times. The last time it happened was March 2026.

Wordle 1928

🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ SHIED

🟩⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️ SLANT

🟩⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️ SPRAG

🟩⬛️🟩🟨⬛️ SQUAW

🟩🟨🟩🟨⬛️ SAUCY

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SCUBA

Time 8:45

I had no idea if SPRAG was a word when I tried it.

I overlooked the fact that I placed A in the same place in my fourth guess as I did in my third. SAUCY should have been my fourth guess but I didn’t think of it until after I had tried SQUAW. My fourth guess did, on the plus side, narrow the possible answers down, according to the bot, to just two words.

The first, last, and only other time that I had a game that consisted of 12 green, 5 yellow, and 13 black letters was on 10/28/24. It was the game that ended my 11th winning streak.

This is the second time this month that I have started a game with 1.0.4 and successfully finished it in 6 guesses. This is the first time that I have had more than one such game in a calendar month.

Games played: 1680

Winning streak: 138

Wordle 1927

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ HEDGY

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨🟨 SPOUT

🟨🟨🟨⬛️⬛️ UNTIL

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TRUNK

Time 7:10

My first guess left me with 675 words from which to choose, according to the bot. My second guess narrowed it down to just eight possible answers. It took me a minute to figure what words were left after my third guess. There were just two but the only other possible answer (JUNTA) didn’t occur to me.

Games played: 1679

Winning streak: 137

Wordle 1926

🟨🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️ PLUMB

🟩🟩🟩🟨⬛️ SLOPE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLOOP

Time 2:25

SLOPE wasn’t the first word that came to mind for my second guess but it seemed like a safer choice.

The last time I had a game looked kind of like this (start with one green and one yellow, follow that up with three green and one yellow, finish in three guesses) was just over a year ago today on 09/26/25.

Games played: 1678

Winning streak: 136

Wordle 1925

⬛️🟨🟩⬛️⬛️ HYENA

🟨⬛️🟩🟨⬛️ YIELD

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ELEGY

Time 7:25

I spent most of my time on my third guess. I decided where I wanted to put the L and the Y fairly quickly but then it took me several minutes to find a word that met those conditions. There was only one other possible answer, according to the bot, after my second guess but the other word (LEERY) didn’t come to mind when I was casting about for a word to play.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 1.1.3 and finished it in 3 guesses. This is the second month in a row that I had at least one game with this start / finish combination. I have seen this start finish / combination in 32 of the past 55 months.

Games played: 1677

Winning streak: 135

Wordle 1924

⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️ DOGMA

🟨🟩⬛️🟨⬛️ PORCH

⬛️🟩🟩⬛️🟨 TOPIC

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 COPSE

Time 5:55

If I had thought of COPSE after my second guess then I might have tried it then but I didn’t.

There were three possible answers after my second guess, according to the bot. The word I didn’t try (COUPE) came to mind at that time but I didn’t try it because it had three vowels.

This is the 14th time during my current winning streak that I have started a game with 1.0.4 and finished it in 4 guesses. This ties the number of times this happened during my eighth winning streak (213 games) and is only exceeded by the 18 times it happened during my 10th winning streak (443 games).

Games played: 1676

Winning streak: 134