Wordle 1903

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩🟩 FIBER

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ PLUSH

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️ NOMAD

⬛️🟨🟨🟨⬛️ TWEAK

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WAGER

Time 14:50

What a nerve wracking game! So many possibilities after my first guess. I immediately decided that I had to turn off hard mode if I was going to have a realistic shot at getting this one without getting extremely lucky. It felt like there was still a large number of possible answers after my third guess. I probably spent most of my time on my fourth guess.

According to the bot:

After 1st guess 123 possible answers

After 2nd guess 60 possible answers

After 3rd guess 16 possible answers

After 4th guess 2 possible answers

The bot, of course, took issue with my fourth guess by pointing out how it might not have helped if the answer had been something different. I take issue with the bot’s analysis because my fourth guess did help, big time. F the bot and its strategies and its commentary! I found the answer in five guesses. That’s good enough for me.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 2.0.3. This is the fifth 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 41 of the past 55 months.

This is the first time this month and 11th time overall that I have started a game with 2.0.3 and finished it in 5 guesses.

Games played: 1655

Winning streak: 113

Wordle 1902

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩 GAMUT

🟨⬛️⬛️🟨🟩 SPLIT

⬛️🟨⬛️🟩🟩 FIRST

⬛️⬛️🟩🟩🟩 EXIST

⬛️⬛️🟩🟩🟩 WHIST

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 JOIST

Time 7:55

I might have tried JOIST earlier but I didn’t think of it until after my fifth guess. My fourth guess (according to the bot) narrowed the possible answers down to four words and my fifth to just the one.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 1.0.4. This is the 34th 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 54 of the past 55 months.

This is the 22nd time I have started a game with 1.0.4 during my current winning streak. This matches the number of times that I started games with 1.0.4 during my 16th winning streak (204 games) and is only exceeded by the 31 such games during my eighth winning streak (213 games) and the 42 such games during my 10th winning streak (443 games).

This is the first time this month and 18th time overall that I have started a game with 1.0.4 and successfully finished it in 6 guesses.

Games played: 1654

Winning streak: 112

Wordle 1901

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ JOINT

⬛️🟩🟩⬛️🟨 PULSE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RULER

Time 2:10

I didn’t overthink my second guess. I just went with a word I’ve used before in situations like this and it paid off big time. I was pretty sure that E had to be the fourth letter after my second guess which led to RULER. I looked but I couldn’t think of any other words that ended with ULER so I gave it a try.

There was just one other possible answer after my second guess (according to the bot): RULED.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.0.5. This is the 43rd 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 53 of the past 55 months.

This is the first time this month and the 29th time overall that I have started a game with 0.0.5 and finished it in 3 guesses.

Games played: 1653

Winning streak: 111

Wordle 1900

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️ OAKEN

⬛️🟩🟨⬛️⬛️ PERCH

🟩🟩⬛️🟩⬛️ RELIT

🟩🟩⬛️🟩⬛️ REBID

🟩🟩⬛️🟩⬛️ REJIG

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 REMIX

Time 20:50

I had it narrowed down to one possible answer after my fourth guess, according to the bot. My fifth guess was a playable word but it wasn’t that answer.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.1.4. This is the 55th consecutive month that I have started at least one game with 0.1.4.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.1.4 and finished it in 6 guesses. I have started at least one game with 0.1.4 and finished it in 6 guesses in 33 of the past 55 months.

This is the third game this year that it has taken me more than 20 minutes to complete. I only had two such games in 2025 and one in 2024.

What a way to start the month. This is the second time this year and fifth time overall that I have successfully finished a game in 6 guesses on the first of the month.

Games played: 1652

Winning streak: 110

Wordle 1899

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️ TRAMP

🟩🟩⬛️🟨⬛️ MOLDY

🟩🟩🟨⬛️⬛️ MODEM

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOUND

Time 7:50

I spent most of my time on my fourth guess. I’m not sure why it took me so long to see that possibility. If I had thought of it when I was working on my third guess then I probably would have tried it then.

My second guess (according to the bot) narrowed things down to six possible answers. My third guess narrowed it down to just one.

Games played: 1651

Winning streak: 109

That’s it for the month of August. I finished the month with an average score of 3.77 guesses per game. This is the first time this year that my monthly average score has been less than 4 and the first time since Jun 2025 that my monthly average has been below 3.8 guesses per game.

My +/- 4 score for August was 5. That’s the first time this year that score has been positive for any one month but my overall score and my score for my current winning streak both remain negative. The last time I has a +/- 4 score of 5 or more was in Jun 2025.

I finished 16 games this month in 4 guesses. This is the sixth time that has happened. I have never finished more than 16 games in a calendar month in 4 guesses.

This is just the second month in which I have had at least five 5G games and five 0Y games. The other month in which this happened was Mar 2023, when I also had five 5G games and six 0Y games.

I had one game this month (on 08/18/26) in which yellow occurred more frequently than black or green without a majority of the letters being yellow. It was the 32nd time that has happened.

I had one 5.5.5 game (in which there was exactly five green, five yellow, and five black letters) this month (on 08/03/26). It was my seventh 5.5.5 game and the first time since May 2025 that I have had such a game.

Here are some more stats.

Wordle 1898

🟨⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️ LAGER

⬛️⬛️🟨🟩⬛️ HOLEY

⬛️⬛️🟨🟩🟩 SPIEL

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 INTEL

Time 6:20

My first thought after my third guess was that I (the letter) must be the second letter but then I (not the letter but me) had trouble thinking of any words that fit that pattern so I started looking elsewhere. That’s how I wound up choosing my fourth guess. There was one other possible solution (according to the bot) after my third guess. That word did come to mind before I thought of INTEL but I wasn’t sure if the spelling was correct and decided to keep looking.

This is the sixth time this month that I have started a game with 1.1.3. This is the third time that I have started six games with 1.1.3 in a calendar month. I have never started more than six games with 1.1.3 in a calendar month.

Games played: 1650

Winning streak: 108

Wordle 1897

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️ WAGON

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️ TUMOR

⬛️🟩🟩🟩⬛️ SLOOP

⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩 FLOOD

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BLOOD

Time 6:55

My third guess narrowed down the possible answers from 13 to 2 words, according to the bot. I played them in the order they occurred to me.

This is the 200th game that I have started with 1.0.4

This is the seventh time during my current winning streak that I have started a game with 1.0.4 and finished it in 5 guesses. This ties the number of times that I had this start / finish combination during my 17th winning streak (133 games) and is only exceeded by the 14 times it happened during my 10th winning streak (443 games).

This my sixth 0Y game this month. This is just the second time that I have had six 0Y Games in a calendar month. The other time this happened was in Mar 2023. I have never had more than six 0Y games in a calendar month.

Games played: 1649

Winning streak: 107