Wordle 1660

🟨⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️ EMPTY

🟩⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️ PLEAD

🟩⬛️⬛️🟩🟩 PHASE

🟩⬛️🟨🟩🟩 PROSE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 POSSE

Time 2:20

I considered making PURSE my fourth guess but I thought of PROSE first so I went with that instead. I checked after the fact and PURSE has not been the answer in the past.

The only other possible solution I saw after my fourth guess was POISE but I thought of POSSE first so I went with that. I checked after the fact and POISE was the answer on 12/24/22.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.2.3 and finished it in 5 guesses. I have started at least one game with 0.2.3 and finished it in 5 guesses in 32 of the past 47 months.

Games played: 1412

Winning streak: 44

Wordle 1659

⬛️⬛️🟨🟨🟨 CHART

🟨🟨⬛️🟩⬛️ TREAD

🟩🟨🟨🟩⬛️ STRAP

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SITAR

Time 2:10

I don’t think that there were any other possible answers after my third guess.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.3.2. I have started at least one game with 0.3.2 in 32 of the past 47 months.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.3.2 and finished it in 4 guesses. This is the 22nd time that I have started a game with 0.3.2 and finished it in 4 guesses. The last time I started a game with 0.3.2 and finished it in 4 guesses was in Mar 2025.

I didn’t have any games during my 16th winning streak (204 games) that started with 0.3.2 and took me 4 guesses to complete but I had seven during my eighth winning streak (213 games) and four during my tenth winning streak (443 games).

Games played: 1411

Winning streak: 43

Wordle 1658

⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨🟨 SLURP

🟩⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️ PARCH

🟩🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️ PRIDE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PROOF

Time 3:25

I only came up with two possible answers after my third guess. The other one was PROMO but I didn’t get to try that one because I played them in the order that they occurred to me.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.2.3. This is the 47th consecutive month that I have started at least one game with 0.2.3.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.2.3 and finished it in 4 guesses. I have started at least one game with 0.2.3 and finished it in 4 guesses in 43 of the past 47 months.

This game ends the streak of games I had going during which I did not start a game with 0.2.3 and finish it in 4 guesses at 70 games. This is the longest I have gone without starting a game with 0.2.3 and finishing it in 4 guesses. It is only the second time that I have gone 40 days or more without starting a game with 0.2.3 and finishing it in 4 guesses. My previous record was 60 games which ran from 10/10/24 to 12/09/24.

Games played: 1410

Winning streak: 42

Wordle 1657

⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️⬛️ WENCH

⬛️🟨🟨⬛️🟩 PLATE

🟨🟩⬛️⬛️🟩 LARGE

🟩🟩🟨⬛️🟩 FALSE

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FABLE

Time 4:05

My second, third, and fourth guesses have all been the answer in the past but they helped me get to the answer, today.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.1.4. This is the 47th consecutive month that I have started at least one game with 0.1.4.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.1.4 and finished it in 5 guesses. This is the 27th consecutive month that I have started at least one game with 0.1.4 and finished it in 5 guesses. I have started at least one game with 0.1.4 and finished it in 5 guesses in 45 of the past 47 months.

Games played: 1409

Winning streak: 41

Wordle 1656

⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️⬛️ CURLY

⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️🟨 PORTE

⬛️⬛️🟩🟩⬛️ THREW

⬛️⬛️🟩🟩⬛️ BARER

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SIREN

Time 4:10

I got kind of nervous after my fourth guess. I felt like making my fourth guess a word that ended in R was a smart play, at that point. In retrospect I think it was but I started to second guess myself, even though it was too late to do anything about it, while I was looking for my fifth guess.

I was pretty sure that the answer wouldn’t have a D as the fifth letter because past tenses of four letter words, like FIRED for instance, never seem to be the answer. That said, past tense words are not completely out of the question because THREW has been the answer in the past.

I thought of SIREN after my fourth guess but then I probably spent a couple minutes casting about for other possible answers before giving it a try.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 1.0.4 and finished it in 5 guesses. This is the fourth consecutive month that I have started at least one game with 1.0.4 and finished it in 5 guesses. I have started at least one game with 1.0.4 and finished it in 5 guesses in 31 of the past 46 months.

Games played: 1408

Winning streak: 40

That’s it for December. My average number of guesses per game was 3.90. That’s lower than the averages got the past couple months or my overall sverage but it is not close to my lowest monthly average which was closer to 3.60. Nothing else really jumps out at me when I look at the stats for the month.

 

Wordle 1655

⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️⬛️ FLESH

⬛️🟨⬛️🟨🟨 PRIDE

🟨🟩🟨⬛️⬛️ REDUG

🟩🟩🟨⬛️⬛️ DERBY

🟩🟩⬛️⬛️🟩 DETER

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DECOR

Time 9:30

This was a close one. I didn’t feel certain that my sixth guess was the answer when I tried it.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 0.1.4 and finished it in 6 guesses. I have started at least one game with 0.1.4 and finished it in 6 guesses in 27 of the past 46 months.

This game ends my streak of games that I finished in fewer than 6 guesses at 35 games. It lasted for five weeks but that’s about two and a half weeks shorter than my longest streak of games that I finished in under 6 guesses.

Games played: 1407

Winning streak: 39

Wordle 1654

⬛️🟨🟨⬛️🟩 GUILT

🟨⬛️⬛️🟩🟩 UNWIT

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FRUIT

Time 4:00

I fumbled around for a little bit after my second guess before I landed on FRUIT. I might have finished this game a little faster if my second guess has been UNFIT but that word didn’t occur to me until after the game was over.

This is the first time this month that I have started a game with 1.2.2 and finished it in 3 guesses. I have finished almost three-quarters (35/47) of the games I have started with 1.2.2 in 3 or 4 guesses.

Games played: 1406

Winning streak: 38