Weekly Recap

May 11 – May 17, 2026

705

Players

584

Solved

82%

Solve Rate

19.8

Avg Guesses

Numbers come from actual gameplay on this site.

Day by Day

Mon, May 11147 players

94% solved · ~17.8 guesses

Popular openers: animalbananafoodmosstree

Tue, May 12103 players

70% solved · ~17.9 guesses

Popular openers: animalbananafoodemotion

Wed, May 13103 players

91% solved · ~18.9 guesses

Popular openers: animalbananafoodtrumpet

Thu, May 14104 players

96% solved · ~18.2 guesses

Popular openers: animalbananafoodplace

Fri, May 1593 players

59% solved · ~23.1 guesses

Popular openers: animalbananafoodemotion

Sat, May 1677 players

94% solved · ~20 guesses

Popular openers: animalbananafood

Sun, May 1778 players

68% solved · ~22.8 guesses

Popular openers: animalbananafood

Alex Huang

Creator of Hot & Cold

Independent developer building word games at the intersection of NLP and play. I ship Hot & Cold's daily challenges, maintain the ranking pipeline, and occasionally lose to my own puzzles.