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

Wordle 1705

⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️ NORTH

⬛️🟩🟨⬛️⬛️ SOLID

⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️🟩 LOCAL

⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️🟩 BOWEL

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOGUL

Time 19:55

I probably spent at least half my time on my fifth guess but I wasn’t exactly flying through the game up to that point.

This is the sixth time during my current winning streak that I have started a game with 1.0.4 and finished it in 5 guesses. This matches the number of games that I started with 1.0.4 and finished in 5 guesses during my eighth winning streak (213 games) and is only exceeded by the numbers of times (14) I managed to do this during my 10th winning streak (443 games).

This is the first time since early December 2025 that it has taken me over 15 minutes to finish a game.

Games played: 1457

Winning streak: 89

Wordle 1704

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ THING

⬛️🟨⬛️🟨⬛️ PALSY

🟩⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️ SCARE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SQUAD

Time 4:35

I spent most of my time on my fourth guess.

This is the 32nd consecutive game that I have had only one or two of the three possible colors represented in my first guess. This is the third time I have had such a streak last this long. I have never had a longer streak of this sort. The other two streaks of this kind that reached 32 games ended on 07/28/22 and 04/21/24.

Games played: 1456

Winning streak: 88

Wordle 1703

🟨⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ THICK

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️ PLATE

🟨⬛️🟩🟨🟩 SNORT

⬛️🟨🟩🟩🟩 FROST

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ROOST

Time 3:00

This is my third 10.5.10 game. The two other two games both began with 0.2.3 and happened on 10/01/22 and 07/14/25.

This is the 30th time that I have started a game with 0.1.4 during my current winning streak. I also started 30 games with 0.1.4 during my third (95 games) and eleventh (93 games) winning streaks.

Games played: 1455

Winning streak: 87