Wordle 762

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ CHAFE

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ MOIST

⬛️🟨🟨⬛️⬛️ WRUNG

🟨🟩⬛️⬛️🟩 RUDDY

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BURLY

Time: 5-6 minutes

This the fifth time I have started back-to-back games with 0.0.5. The last time this happened was Jun 17-18. I have never started more than two consecutive games with 0.0.5.

This is just the fourth game I have had nothing but black letters in my first two guesses. The last game I started with nothing but black letters in my first two guesses was on Jun 18. This is the first time it has taken me 5 guesses to finish a game that started with nothing but black letters in my first two guesses. See my notes for Jun 18 for more about the other three games that started with nothing but black letters in my first two guesses. 

Games played: 514

Winning streak: 73

Wordle 761

⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ MOUSE

⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️ BRAID

⬛️🟩🟩🟩⬛️ PLANT

⬛️🟩🟩🟩⬛️ CLANG

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FLANK

Time: 4-5 minutes

The pattern of green and black blocks kind of looks like a building. I thought about playing FLANK as my fourth guess. If I had then it would look like a pyramid. 

This is my third 0Y game this month and fourth 0Y game this streak.

This is the seventh time I have started a 0Y game with 0.0.5 and the seventh time I have finished a 0Y game in 5 guesses and the seventh time I have had at least three 0Y games in a month.

This is the second time I have started a 0Y game with 0.0.5 and finished it in 5 guesses. The other time this happened was on Mar 12. 

This is the 50th game that I have started with 0.0.5 according to my close to but not quite complete records. I only have detailed records for 498 of the 513 games I have played. Seven of the 50 games that I started with 0.0.5 were 5G games, six were 0Y games, and one was both a 5G and a 0Y game. In other words more than a quarter (14/50) of the games that I have started with 0.0.5 have been either a 5G game, a 0Y game, or both. That seems like a high percentage to me considering that overall less than 15 percent (73/498) of my games have been 5G games, 0Y games or both and just over 13 percent (59/448) of my games that did not begin with 0.0.5 have been 5G games, 0Y games or both. 

Games played: 513

Winning streak: 72

Wordle 760

⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️⬛️ FIVER

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩🟨 AUDIO

⬛️⬛️🟨🟩⬛️ SPOIL

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TONIC

Time: 5-6 minutes

This is the first time this month that I have started with 0.1.4 and finished in 4 guesses. This is the 17th consecutive month that I have started at least one game with 0.1.4 and finished it in 4 guesses. This is the most common combination of start and finish for me. There is no other combination of start and finish that has occurred in all 16 months (Apr 2022 - Jul 2023) for which I have complete records. 

Games played: 512

Winning streak: 71

Wordle 759

🟨⬛️⬛️🟩🟩 LOSER

⬛️⬛️🟨🟩🟩 PALER

🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩 FLIER

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FLYER

Time: 1 minute

This is the eighth time in the past 496 games that I have started with 2.1.2. It is the second time I have started with 2.1.2 and finished in 4 guesses. The last (and only other) time I started with 2.1.2 and finished in 4 guesses happened on Mar 15, 2022.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 2 or more green letters. I have started at least one game each month with two or more green letters in 16 of the 17 full months that I have been playing Wordle. 

Games played: 511

Winning streak: 70

Wordle 758

⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️🟨 COVER

🟨⬛️🟨⬛️🟨 RADIO

🟨🟩🟩⬛️🟨 PROUD

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DROOP

Time: 2-3 minutes

This is the fourth time this month that I have started a game with 0.2.3 and finished it in 4 guesses. 

Games played: 510

Winning streak: 69

Wordle 757

⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️ CODER

⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️ BONUS

⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️ FOLIO

⬛️🟩🟩⬛️⬛️ HOPPY

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TOPAZ

Time: 9-10 minutes

I also considered playing POPPY or MOMMY as my fourth guess but I went with HOPPY because of the potential to eliminate more letters. I also considered playing POTTY as my fourth guess. It would have gotten me closer to the solution than HOPPY did but it also would have guaranteed that this would not have been a 0Y game for me. 

This is the fourteenth time I have started a game with 1.0.4 and finished it in 5 guesses. The last time I started a game with 1.0.4 and finished it in 5 guesses was on Feb 27. 

This is my second 0Y game this month and third one this streak. I finished the two previous 0Y games in 4 guesses. 

Almost half of my 0Y games (18/38) have started with 1.0.4. I have finished fewer than one-sixth (6/38) of my 0Y games in 5 guesses. This is just the fourth 0Y game that I have started with 1.0.4 and finished in 5 guesses. 

Games played: 509

Winning streak: 68

Wordle 756

⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️ BRAID

⬛️🟩🟩⬛️⬛️ GROUP

⬛️🟩🟩⬛️🟨 FROWN

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRONE

Time: 2-3 minutes

This is the second time this month that I have started a game with 1.0.4 and finished it in 4 guesses. 

Games played: 508

Winning streak: 67