Wordle 1933

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨 RUMBA

⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️ PLANT

🟩🟩🟩⬛️⬛️ SHADE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SHACK

Time 7:00

I really wanted my third guess to not have more than one vowel but I couldn’t think of any words that fit that used only the more commonly used letters so I went with SHADE, the first word that came to mind. I thought of SHACK almost immediately after I saw the results of my third guess but I sat on it for maybe a minute while I tried to figure out what other possible answers there might be. There was another possible word, according to the bot, after my second guess but it didn’t occur to me.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.1.4. This is the 56th consecutive that I have started at least one game with 0.1.4.

This is the first time this month that I have started at least one game with 0.1.4 and finished it in 4 guesses. This is the 56th consecutive month that I have started at least one game with 0.1.4 and finished it in 4 guesses.

Games played: 1685

Winning streak: 143

Wordle 1932

⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️🟨 TWERP

🟩⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️ PLEAD

🟩⬛️🟩⬛️🟩 PIECE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PEEVE

Time 4:45

My second guess, according to the bot, narrowed down to the possible answers to three words. The one I didn’t try (POESY) didn’t even come to mind.

I also started yesterday’s game with 1.1.3. This is the 13th time that has happened in back to back games. I’ve never had it happen three games in a row.

I also started yesterday’s game with 1.1.3 and finished it in 4 guesses. This is the fourth time that has happened in back to back games. I’ve never had it happen three games in a row.

Games played: 1684

Winning streak: 142

Wordle 1931

🟨⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️ SQUID

⬛️⬛️🟩🟨⬛️ PLUSH

⬛️⬛️🟩🟩🟨 TOURS

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 USURY

Time 15:00

I spent most of my time on my second guess. It, my second guess, according to the bot, narrowed down the possible answers to just one word. It, the answer, didn’t come to mind until after I spent a lot of time trying to find a word that fit and wound up trying a word that I knew couldn’t be it.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 1.1.3. This is the eighth consecutive month that I have started at least one game with 1.1.3. I have started at least one game with 1.1.3 in 54 of the past 56 months.

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 33 of the past 56 months but not last month.

Games played: 1683

Winning streak: 141

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