Weekly Recap

May 18 – May 24, 2026

581

Players

467

Solved

78%

Solve Rate

25.1

Avg Guesses

Numbers come from actual gameplay on this site.

Day by Day

Mon, May 1881 players

82% solved · ~32.6 guesses

Popular openers: bananaanimalfood

Tue, May 1987 players

66% solved · ~27.7 guesses

Popular openers: bananaanimalfood

Wed, May 20110 players

85% solved · ~22 guesses

Popular openers: bananaanimalfoodtechnologyplace

Thu, May 21102 players

95% solved · ~22.2 guesses

Popular openers: bananaanimalfoodplacedog

Fri, May 2287 players

95% solved · ~20.5 guesses

Popular openers: bananaanimalfood

Sat, May 2354 players

50% solved · ~26.4 guesses

Popular openers: bananaanimalfood

Sun, May 2460 players

73% solved · ~24.6 guesses

Popular openers: bananaanimalfoodtechnology

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.