Wordle Wrap Up

Bruce Ediger

There’s a last time for everything. My last Wordle was number 1234.

I decided I can no longer give anything, not views, not ad views, not clicks, to the pro-Trump New York Times. I am rage quitting Wordle.

Here’s my Wordle wrap up stats.

NYT has enshittifyied Wordle ever since they bought it, reducing access to the wordlebot, and finally putting wordlebot behind their paywall.

I bear no grudge towards Josh Wardle for selling his game. One very good outcome for him was to sell it for a lot of money, and apparently he sold it for some tens of millions of dollars. I do bear ill will towards the New York Times for doing such predictably awful things to ruin it.

I have records of 947 my Wordle grids, from no. 219 (5/6), to no. 1234 (4/6). I think I started a few games earlier, but not too many.

According to my records, my longest streaks were:

  • 87, 1001-1087
  • 89, 778-866
  • 91, 894-984
  • 96, 545-640

I’m pretty sure I actually had a longer streak or two. These records are from a group chat. I suspect that I failed to paste a grid into the chat once or twice.

My guess distribution looks like this:

  1 1/6
 45 2/6
257 3/6
383 4/6
190 5/6
 51 6/6
 20 X/6

Wordle guess distribution

The only one-guess solution I got was for CRANE, which was my starting word for a long time. I think I used IRATE at first, and a couple of games after CRANE as a solution, I used SLATE consistently.

I’m surprised I only have records of 20 skunks. It seems like more than that.

Wordle afforded me a lot of small doses of fun.