Wordle 1837

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ SHREW

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨 CLAMP

🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ POINT

🟩🟩⬛️⬛️🟩 PUDGY

🟩🟩⬛️⬛️🟩 PUFFY

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PUPPY

Time 6:45

That was close but I’m pretty sure that there was just one possible answer after my fifth guess.

This is the 13th time that I have had a game in which there was more than 16 black letters. This is the fourth time this year this has happened. It happened five times in 2025 and four times prior to that. Six of the 14 times it has happened have been games that I did not complete successfully. It has only happened once in a game that didn’t go the distance.

This is the second time this month that I have started a game with 0.0.5 and successfully finished it in 6 guesses. This is the fourth time that I have had this happen twice in a calendar month. I’ve never had it happen more than twice in a calendar month.

This is the first and only time this month that I have only found one letter from the answer in my first three guesses. This is the sixth time this year and 18th time overall that this has happened. The last time it happened was 04/24/26.

Games played: 1589

Winning streak: 47

That’s it for June. My average score for June was 4.43, my third highest monthly average.

I finished ten more games in 5 or 6 guesses than I did in 1 to 3 guesses. That’s only exceeded by Jul 2025 when that count was 13 games. This is the sixth consecutive month that I have finished more games in 5 or 6 guesses than I have in 1 to 3 guesses. Prior to now I had never had this happen more that three months in a row.

I only finished two games in 3 guesses this month. That’s the fewest number of games I have ever finished in 3 guesses in a calendar month. I usually finish seven or eight games per month in 3 guesses.

I finished 90 percent (27/30) of my games this month in less than 10 minutes but none in under a minute. -Here are some more stats.

Wordle 1751

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ SHACK

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ BLIMP

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️ GRUNT

🟩🟩⬛️🟩⬛️ ENDOW

🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩 ENJOY

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ENVOY

Time 8:00

I really had to work for this one. I played 22 of the 26 letters before it was over. The only letters I didn’t try were F, Q, X, and Z. This is the first time I have tried more than 21 different letters in a game.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.0.5 and finished it in 6 guesses. This is the 20th time I have started a game with 0.0.5 and finished it in 6 guesses.

This is the fourth time this year and the 16th time overall that I have found just one letter in my first three guesses. This is just the fourth time this has happened and that my first two guesses have been nothing but black letters.

There were more than 16 black letters in this game. This is the 13th time that I have had more than 16 black letters in a game. My game yesterday also had more than 16 black letters. This is the first time that has happened in back to back games.

Games played: 1503

Winning streak: 1

Wordle 1750

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ EQUIP

🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ SLOTH

🟩⬛️🟨⬛️🟩 SCARY

🟩🟩⬛️⬛️🟩 SAVVY

🟩🟩⬛️⬛️🟩 SASSY

🟩🟩⬛️⬛️🟩 SAGGY

SANDY ☹️

This ends my 17th winning streak, my fourth longest winning streak. I should have thought a little more and made something like SANDY my fourth guess but I became fixated on the idea that the missing letters were probably the same.

I checked and SAGGY has not been the answer in the past but SANDY has.

Games played: 1502

Winning streak: 0

My average for this winning streak was 4.17 guesses per game. This ties the mark set during my second winning streak (42 games). I’ve never had a higher average. -My +/- 4 factor was -17 for my 17th winning streak, considerably higher than it was for any other winning streak. It was -4 for my 16th winning streak (203 games), +6 for my eighth winning streak (213 games), and +12 for my 10th winning streak (443 games).

This is the fifth time that I have started a losing game with 0.0.5. This is the eighth time that my next to last guess in a losing game has been 3.0.2.

I started 35 games during my 17th winning streak with 0.0.5. That’s a much higher average (26.3%) than any of my other winning streaks that lasted over 100 games. The only other winning streak of any length that had an average over 20% was my 16th (20.2%). My averages for my eighth and 10th winning streaks were both below 12.5%.

Hopefully tomorrow will be the start of a new winning streak. Hopefully it will last at least as long as my 17th did.

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 1523

🟨⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️ ABLED

⬛️⬛️🟩🟨⬛️ SHALT

⬛️🟩🟩⬛️⬛️ PLAIN

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ FROCK

⬛️🟩🟩⬛️⬛️ GLAZY

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LLAMA

Time 6:30

That was a tricky one. I was convinced after my fourth guess that the answer had to begin with G. It wasn’t until after my fifth guess that LLAMA even occurred to me.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.2.3 and finished it in 6 guesses. This is the 16th time that I have started a game with 0.2.3 and finished it in 6 guesses.

Games played: 1275

Winning streak: 112

Wordle 1497

⬛️🟩⬛️🟩⬛️ LOVEY

⬛️🟩⬛️🟩🟩 HOPER

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ STICK

⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️ WOUND

🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨 GUMBO

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GOFER

Time 20:10

To say that I agonized over my third, fourth, and fifth guesses would be putting it mildly. It seemed like there was a very large pool of possible answers after my second guess. I used my next three guesses to eliminate letters until I finally found one that fit. It occurred to me that there might be a second R in the answer but I didn’t see how I could test that theory without possibly wasting a guess.

GOFER was one of a myriad of possible answers that occurred to me after my second guess but I didn’t feel comfortable giving it a go until my sixth guess.

This is the third time that I have had a game that lasted six guesses and in which the grid consisted of 12 green, 1 yellow, and 17 black letters. Both of the previous times this happened was in games that ended winning streaks. Those games happened on 04/22/23 and 01/19/25.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 2.0.3. This is the fourth 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 30 of the past 41 months.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 2.0.3 and finished it successfully in 6 guesses. This is just the second time that I have started a game with 2.0.3 and finished it successfully in 6 guesses. The previous time this happened was on 07/14/22. I have successfully finished all 49 games that I have started with 2.0.3.

Games played: 1249

Winning streak: 86

Wordle 1400

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ PLUSH

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ TREAD

⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️⬛️ GOOFY

⬛️🟩🟨⬛️⬛️ KNOCK

🟩🟩⬛️🟩⬛️ INION

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 INBOX

Time 17:25

I didn’t think my fifth guess was a word but I decided to give it a try anyway. I really wasn’t sure about my final guess. I didn’t even consider it as a possibility until I got that far.

This is the second time I have had a game that went the distance and in which the distribution of letters was 9.2.19. The other time this happened was on 12/29/24 in the game that ended my twelfth winning streak (61 games).

This is the tenth time that I have had nothing but black letters in my first two guesses. This is the tenth time that I have only found one of the letters in the answer in my first three guesses. This is just the second time that both of these things have occurred in the same game. The other time this happened was on 06/08/24.

Oddly enough, I have managed to complete every game successfully that has started with all black letters in my first two guesses and every game in which I have only found one of the letters in the answer in my first three guesses.

This is the second time this month and this year that it has taken me more than 15 minutes to finish a game. This is the first time since Nov 2023 that I have had a month in which I had multiple games that lasted over 15 minutes.

Games played: 1152

Winning streak: 63

Wordle 1337

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ PIQUE

⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️ SHOWY

⬛️⬛️🟩🟨⬛️ ABORT

⬛️⬛️🟩🟩🟨 FLOOR

⬛️🟩🟩🟩⬛️ GROOM

🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️ CROON

CROOK ☹️

Time 10:50

I thought of trying CROCK as my fifth guess but I didn’t. That would, in retrospect, have been a better fifth guess. I only saw two possible answers after my fifth guess. I went with the one I thought of first. Oops?

This game ends my streak of finishing games in 3 or 4 guesses at 14, my longest such streak to date.

This is third consecutive month in which I have failed to complete a game successfully. That’s a first for me. Maybe next month I can do better.

This was my 14th winning streak. It took me an average of 3.88 guesses to finish a game during this winning streak. This was my second longest winning streak with an average number of guesses below 4. My longest winning streak with an average number of guesses below 4 lasted 61 games. I’m not sure if I should read anything into that but I am tempted to.

This is the third time that I have started a game with 0.0.5 and failed to finish it successfully.

This is the seventh time that my next to last last guess was 3.0.2 in a game that I failed to complete successfully.

Games played: 1089

Winning streak: 0

Wordle 1310

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️ BAGEL

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️ CHIEF

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩🟩 SUPER

⬛️🟩⬛️🟩🟩 MOVER

⬛️🟩⬛️🟩⬛️ TONED

🟨🟩⬛️🟩🟩 WOKER

ROWER 🙁

Time 9:00

So much for that winning streak. I knew I was in trouble after my third guess. There are so many words that end in ER. Also, I forgot to consider that there might be another R in the answer.

This is the first time I have had fails in back to back months since April and May 2023.

This was my 13th winning streak and the seventh winning streak of mine that has not reached 25 games in length.

I started this winning streak with a really high average score. I had just gotten that average back to exactly 4 guesses per game and then this happens. This is the fourth time that I have had a winning streak end with an average score of exactly 4 guesses per game. Two of those winning streaks were shorter than this one. Those would be my sixth (3 games) and seventh (9 games) winning streaks. The other one was my eighth winning streak (213 games).

Games played: 1062

Winning streak: 0

Wordle 1289

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️ SQUAW

⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️ GRAPH

🟩🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️ MANLY

🟩🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️ MATED

🟩🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️ MAFIA

🟩🟩🟩⬛️⬛️ MAMMA

MAMBO ☹️

Time 8:45

Thus ends my twelfth winning streak, my fifth longest winning streak. It lasted just over two months.

I spent most of my time on my last three guesses. MAMBO didn’t even enter my mind as I cast about for possible answers.

I can see now that my sixth guess couldn’t have been the answer because I had already tried a word that ended with A but at the time I wasn’t thinking straight and tried a word that I should not have tried.

This is the second time that I have started a game with 0.1.4 and failed to successfully complete it.

My average for this streak was 3.84, freakishly low. I finished more games in 3 guesses than I did in 4 guesses. The only other winning streak in which I achieved this feat was my ninth but that only lasted 16 games.

Games played: 1041

Winning streak: 0

Wordle 1085

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ PLAUD

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ SWIFT

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩 GROVE

⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️🟩 MEZZE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HENCE

Time: 13-14 minutes

My first three guesses went fairly quickly. After that I was stumped for several minutes. I probably would have tried HENCE as my fourth guess if I had thought of it then but it took me forever to get there, even after my fourth guess.

This is the seventh time that I have gotten three guesses into a game and only found one letter. 

This is the sixth time that my first two guesses consisted of nothing but black letters. I successfully completed all six of those games. Three of those games happened during my current winning streak. Three of those games were 0Y games but this is the only one that was a 0Y game during my current winning streak.

This is the first time that my first two guess have consisted of nothing but black letters and my third guess had four black letters. 

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.0.5 and finished it in 5 guesses. I have started at least one game with 0.0.5 and finished it in 5 guesses in 17 of the past 28 months. 

This is the first time this month and fourth time overall that I have started a 0Y game with 0.0.5 and finished it in 5 guesses. Three of the four 0Y games that I have started with 0.0.5 and finished in 5 guesses have happened during my current winning streak. The other one happened during my eighth winning streak (213 games).

This is my third consecutive game that has been either a 5G or 0Y game. The only other time I have had three consecutive games that were some combination of 5G or 0Y games was in Mar 2023.

Games played: 837

Winning streak: 396

Wordle 689

⬛️🟩⬛️🟨⬛️ WOMAN

⬛️🟩🟨⬛️⬛️ LOAVE

⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️🟩 AORTA

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ DUMPY

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ SHIFT

⬛️🟩🟩🟨🟩 BOCCA

COCOA :(

Time: 83-84 minutes

This was not my proudest moment playing this game. My fourth and fifth guesses were attempts to find or eliminate letters. For the most part those guesses were helpful I just failed to find the correct answer.

This is the second time I have started a game with 1.1.3 and failed to complete it successfully. The previous time this occurred was on Mar 16, 2022.

I finished this streak earlier than I would have liked to have finished it but it was good while it lasted. My average score during this streak was 3.75 without counting this game and 3.88 with it. Both are record lows for me.

Some of the statistics for this streak do stand out. I finished eight games or 50 percent of my games in the streak in 3 guesses. Usually I finish 25.85 of my games in 3 guesses. I finished three games or 18.50 percent of my games in this streak in 4 guesses. Usually I finish 38.78 percent of my games in 4 guesses. I had three 5G games and two 0Y games in this streak, which means that they accounted for a greater percentage of my games in this streak than in any previous streaks, short or long.

Games played: 441

Winning streak: 0

Wordle 672

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ STAIN

⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️🟩 COUPE

⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️🟩 WHOLE

⬛️🟩🟩⬛️🟩 GROVE

⬛️🟩🟩⬛️🟩 FROZE

⬛️🟩🟩⬛️🟩 ERODE

BROKE :(

Time: 10-11 minutes

My luck finally ran out.

This streak has come to an end! BROKE broke my streak. I considered playing it but I chose not to. *sigh*

I spent a lot of time staring at this game after my fourth guess. I came up with three possible answers. There was unfortunately no overlap in the missing letters between the three words.

This is the second time this month that I have started with 0.0.5 on consecutive days.

This is the first time I have lost a game that started with 0.0.5. 

This streak lasted just over 7 months. It started on 20 Sep 2022. This was my eighth streak. My streaks have lasted an average of 53 games. This streak lasted almost exactly 4 times that long and accounts for just over half the games I have played. My streaks lasted an average of 30 games prior to this streak. 

I can see in retrospect what I should have done to win this game and keep this streak going. I should have guessed something (with my 5th guess) that I knew couldn't be the answer but would help me to eliminate at least one and maybe two of the three possible answers. I've done that before. I'm not sure why I didn't do it here.

Games played: 424

Winning streak: 0