Wordle 1808

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨🟨 RETCH

🟩🟩🟩⬛️⬛️ CHIMP

🟩🟩🟩⬛️⬛️ CHING

🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️ CHILD

🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️ CHILL

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CHILI

Time 5:35

I considered playing CHILL as early as my second guess. I doubt that I would have finished in three if I had but it probably wouldn’t have have taken me six.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.2.3. I have started at least one game with 0.2.3 in all of the past 52 months.

This is the first time this month and 20th time overall that I have started a game with 0.2.3 and successfully finished it in 6 guesses.

This is the fourth time that I have finished the first game of the month in 6 guesses. The previous times this happened were 06/01/22, 01/01/25, and 04/01/25. I hope this month is more like Jun 2022 than it is the other two months. I finished all games successfully in Jun 2022 and I finished a game in one guess that month. Neither of those things is true about the other two months.

Games played: 1560

Winning streak: 18

Wordle 1807

⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️ VODKA

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩🟩 SLIDE

⬛️⬛️🟩🟩🟩 PRUDE

🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩 EXUDE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ETUDE

Time 4:05

I wasn’t so sure about starting with VODKA but it all worked out in the end.

This is my second 12345 game this year. My last one occurred on 02/04/26 and also took 4:05 to complete. Overall this is my 21st such game. This is the first time I’ve ended a month with a 12345 game.

This is the 10th time this month that I have finished a game 5 guesses. This the fourth time I have managed this feat.

This is the 125th time that I have started a game with 0.1.4 and finished it in 5 guesses. This is the 125th time that my next to last guess has been 4.0.1 and that I have finished the game in 5 guesses.

Games played: 1559

Winning streak: 17

That does it for the month of May. I finished the month with an average score 4.29, not my worst ever but that’s pretty high for me. This is the fifth consecutive month that my average score has been over 4 guesses per game.

This is the second time that I have had an average score of 4 or more guesses per game in five consecutive months. The last time this happened was Jul to Nov 2023 but in that stretch I had an average score of exactly 4 one month and 4.03 another month. This time around my lowest monthly average score was 4.19.

No surprise here, given what I just pointed out, but for the fifth month in a row my +/- 4 score is negative. My cumulative score was +6 at the end of 2025. It is now -25.

A week into this month it looked like I was on pace to finish 20 games in 5 guesses. I only made it to 10 games in 5 guesses. Five times in seven days was a fluke. Ten times in 31 days was on the high side but not a fluke. Overall I usually finish about 7 games per month in 5 guesses.

Here are some more stats.

Wordle 1806

⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️⬛️ HERON

⬛️🟨🟨⬛️⬛️ PLEAT

⬛️⬛️🟩🟩🟩 GUILE

⬛️⬛️🟩🟩🟩 EXILE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SMILE

Time 16:00

I probably would have made SMILE my third or fourth guess if I had thought of it earlier but I didn’t.

This is the second time that SMILE has been the answer. The other time was on 09/27/23. I completed that game in 2 guesses. This is the 14th word to have been the answer twice.

Games played: 1558

Winning streak: 16

Wordle 1805

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ FIXER

⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️ PLUSH

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CLANG

Time 1:40

I see it but I don’t believe it.

Going in I had serious doubts abouter starting with a word that ended with XER.

This is the first time this month and 27th time overall that I have started a game with 0.0.5 and finished it in 3 guesses.

This is the third time time I have started a game with 0.0.5, gotten just one letter with my second guess, and got the answer with my third guess. The other two times this happened were 08/29/24 and 09/06/25.

This is the eleventh time that I have started a 0Y game with 0.0.5 and finished it in 3 guesses. The last time it happened was 01/23/26.

Games played: 1557

Winning streak: 15

Wordle 1804

🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ DUCHY

🟩⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️ DROLE

🟩🟩⬛️⬛️🟨 DINGO

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DIVOT

Time 12:45

I spent a lot of time on my last two guesses, especially my fourth one. I’m not sure if there were any other possible answers after my third guess..

This is the fourth time this month that I have started a game with 1.0.4 and finished it in 4 guesses. This is the second time that I have seen this start/ finish combination occur four times in a calendar month. The last month in which it occurred four times was Jun 2023. It has never occurred more than four times for me in a calendar month.

Games played: 1556

Winning streak: 14

Wordle 1803

🟨⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ FLING

⬛️⬛️🟨🟨⬛️ HEFTY

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩🟨 CRAFT

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STUFF

Time 4:05

The first word that came to mind, believe it or not, after my first guess, was STUFF. I was reluctant to give it a try at that point. I thought about it again after my second guess but I still wasn’t ready to give it a try at that point. I was still reluctant to try it after my third guess but I decided to give it a go, despite my preference for words that have five different letters.

Games played: 1555

Winning streak: 13

Wordle 1802

⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️ WORLD

🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩 COUGH

🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩 COUTH

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 COUCH

Time 2:45

POUCH did not occur to me when I was working on my second guess but I wonder now if my second guess had been POUCH if I would have finished this one in 3 guesses. Probably not because I probably would have tried either TOUCH or VOUCH first.

This is the 10th time this month that I have finished a game in 4 guesses. This is the 11th consecutive month that I have finished at least 10 games in 4 guesses. I have finished at least 10 games in 4 guesses in 42 of the past 51 months.

This is the first 0Y game of my current winning streak. This is the 12th consecutive winning streak in which I have had at least one 0Y game. I have had at least one 0Y game in 18 of my 19 winning streaks. The only winning streak in which I did not have a 0Y game was my seventh (3 games).

Games played: 1554

Winning streak: 12