When it was announced in May 2026 that there would be a Wordle game show on broadcast television, hosted by the TODAY Show’s Savannah Guthrie, a bunch of folks, including people I knew IRL, posted on social media that they would LOVE to be on the program. But not me. I’m not playing Wordle on TV.
I can spend an inordinate amount of time weighing my word options. Surely, I couldn’t do that on the air. One of the things I’m most happy about is that I was on JEOPARDY long before social media was around, dissecting every missed choice, each stutter.
Nah, I’ll play at home because I’m still holding on to the extremely faint hope that I can break my previous win streak.
(But I MIGHT join a Connections Online Quiz League.)
My last 100 games: 0 1s, 14 2s, 52 3s, 27 4s, 7 5s, 0 6s(!) for an average of 3.27. Average over 1600 games is 3.728.
Recent games
Sometimes, I’m lucky.
Wordle 1,829 2/6
AROSE 2
OVATE
But if I have a yellow S, I will put it in the first position if there’s nothing else there. And try letters from TULIP.
Wordle 1,821 2/6
AROSE 21
SEPIA
Initially, had no idea there was only one choice.
Wordle 1,856 3/6
AROSE 43
TULIP 1
CHURN
Wordle 1,832 3/6
AROSE 238
TULIP 1
UNITY
Wordle 1,841 3/6
AROSE 200
TULIP 1
PIZZA
And sometimes, the “one” choice isn’t it! “There was only one possible solution left — and this wasn’t it. towny is a valid guess, and you have a great vocabulary, but Wordle typically uses more common words as solutions.
Wordle 1,843 4/6
AROSE 145
TULIP 1
TOWNY 1(!)
TODDY
After the second choice, I had no good idea, so I used a plural, even though I was pretty certain it would not be the answer. It helped a lot.
Wordle 1,852 4/6
AROSE 83
SLANT 3
PUPAS 1
PSHAW
The WordleBot seems to think AGLET is an unusual word. I don’t think so.
Wordle 1,846 3/6
AROSE 19
AGLET 2
AMEND
When BUTTE was the answer, there was an article in the NYT that very day referring to the new Teddy Roosevelt Library in North Dakota as being built on a butte… NINE times.
Wordle 1,853 4/6
AROSE 94
THINE 4
GLUTE 1
BUTTE
