Weekly Recap

Jun 15 – Jun 21, 2026

375

Players

240

Solved

65%

Solve Rate

28.1

Avg Guesses

Numbers come from actual gameplay on this site.

Day by Day

Mon, Jun 1566 players

67% solved · ~26.6 guesses

Popular openers: animalfoodbananacat

Tue, Jun 1653 players

62% solved · ~27.2 guesses

Popular openers: animalbananafood

Wed, Jun 1758 players

59% solved · ~33.5 guesses

Popular openers: bananaanimaltechnologyfood

Thu, Jun 1861 players

59% solved · ~26.1 guesses

Popular openers: bananaanimalfood

Fri, Jun 1951 players

73% solved · ~27.6 guesses

Popular openers: bananaanimalfood

Sat, Jun 2039 players

90% solved · ~24.1 guesses

Popular openers: animalbananafood

Sun, Jun 2147 players

45% solved · ~31.3 guesses

Popular openers: animalbananafoodplace

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.