Wordle 1712

🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ SPLAY

🟩🟩⬛️🟨⬛️ SHORT

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SHRED

Time 1:05

I played it safe with my second and third guesses and it paid off.

I am 25 days into the month and I have yet to start a games with 0.2.3, a word that consists of 2 yellow and 3 black letters. This is the second most common start combination I have seen in 4 plus years of playing Wordle. This by far the furthest I have made it into a month without starting a game with 0.2.3. The furthest I had made it into a month without starting a game with 0.2.3 (prior to now) was 16 days in Apr 2022.

Games played: 1464

Winning streak: 96

Wordle 1711

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ SWATH

⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️ COULD

⬛️🟨⬛️🟨🟩 FEMUR

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BUYER

Time 8:40

I took my time with this game. BUYER didn’t occur to me until at least a minute after I saw the results of my third guess.

I checked after the fact and only my first two guesses have been the answer in the past.

Games played: 1463

Winning streak: 95

This, my 17th winning streak, is now exactly as long as my 3rd winning streak. I have only had three winning streaks that lasted longer than my current winning streak: 8th (213 games), 10th (443 games), and 16th (203 games). Here are some stats.

A few things really jump out at me in the stats:

First, I finished considerably more games in 5 guesses during my 17th winning streak.

Second, I finished considerably more games in 5 or 6 guesses than I did in 1, 2, or 3 guesses in my 17th streak. That's the +/- 4 number which is just -2 for winning streak 3 but is -15 for winning streak 17.

Finally, I started considerably more games with nothing but black letters in my first guess (0.0.5) in my 17th winning streak. 

Wordle 1710

⬛️🟨🟩🟨⬛️ WITCH

⬛️⬛️🟩🟩🟩 OPTIC

🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩 ANTIC

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ATTIC

Time 2:25

At first I thought my second guess should begin with C but then I started to consider other possibilities. I didn’t think of ATTIC until after my third guess.

I checked after the fact and ANTIC has been the answer in the past but OPTIC has not.

This game ends my streak of games in which I did not have all three colors in my first guess at 37 games. This is the longest streak of this kind that I have had. My previous record for this kind of streak was 33 games.

This game ends my streak of games in which I had 4 or 5 black letters on my first guess at 15 games. This is the longest streak of games that I have had in which I had either 4 or 5 black letters in my first guess. My previous record was 13 games.

This is the 10th time this month that I have finished a game in 4 guesses. This is the eighth consecutive month that I have finished at least 10 games in 4 guesses. I have finished at least 10 games in 4 guesses in 39 of the past 48 months.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 1.2.2. I have started at least one game with 1.2.2 in 32 of the past 48 months.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 1.2.2 and finished it in 4 guesses. This the eighth time that I have started a game with 1.2.2 and finished it in 4 guesses.

Games played: 1462

Winning streak: 94

Wordle 1709

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ CLEFT

⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️ SPURN

⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️ HUMID

⬛️🟩🟨⬛️⬛️ BUGGY

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GUAVA

Time 10:20

GUAVA was one of the possible answers I considered while I was trying to decide what my fourth guess should be.

Walking backwards through my past four games, my first guess today was the same as my first guess yesterday. My second guess today was the same as my first guess two days ago. My third guess today was the same as my first guess three days ago. My fourth guess today was the same as my second guess four days ago. My fifth guess today blah, blah, blah.

Games played: 1461

Winning streak: 93

This is the fourth anniversary of the day I started playing Wordle. I didn’t start keeping track of every game I played until 03/10/22 so I don’t have a record of my very first game but that’s what I recall. Yesterday would have been my 1461st game except for the fact that I skipped playing one day somewhere between 02/22/22 and 03/10/22. I don’t recall exactly what day it was that I skipped playing but I think it was during February.

Wordle 1708

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ BULLY

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ POINT

⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️🟩 SHAME

⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️🟩 GRACE

🟨⬛️🟩⬛️🟩 WEAVE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AWAKE

Time 8:15

I really feel like I dodged a bullet with this game. I intended for my first guess to be BULKY but I hit enter before I checked what I had typed. I didn’t consider putting the letter K into my second or fourth guesses. My third guess could have been SHAKE but I decided that I liked SHAME better given my stupid mistake earlier in the game. I saw three possible answers after my fourth guess. AWAKE was one of those words and the other was WEAZE.

I played this game in Hard mode. I considered turning that off after my fourth guess but once I narrowed my options down to three words, all of which contained the letter W, I decided to play on in Hard mode.

I checked after the fact and neither WEAVE nor WEAZE has been the answer in the past.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.0.5 and finished it in 6 guesses. I also started one game with 0.0.5 and finished it in 6 guesses last month. This is the first time I have had this happen in back to back months. This is the 19th time that I have started a game with 0.0.5 and finished it in 6 guesses.

Games played: 1460

Winning streak: 92

Wordle 1707

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️ LEFTY

🟨⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ THIRD

🟩🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️ STOMP

🟩🟩⬛️🟩⬛️ STUNG

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STANK

Time 3:15

I thought about making STANK my fourth guess but STUNG came to mind first so I went with that instead.

This is the 13th consecutive game in which my first guess has had either 4 or 5 black letters. I have only once in the past had this kind of streak last this long. That streak lasted from 07/16/22 to 07/28/22.

Games played: 1459

Winning streak: 91

Wordle 1706

⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️ BLOCK

⬛️🟩⬛️🟨🟨 MOUTH

🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩 HORST

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HOIST

Time 9:20

I spent most of my time on my third guess. I wasn’t sure that my third guess was a word but I gave it a try anyway. Maybe if I had thought about it a little longer then I might have finished this game in three guesses.

This the 300th time that my next to last guess has been 4.0.1. I have finished 104 of those 300 games in 4 guesses.

Games played: 1458

Winning streak: 90