Weekly Recap

Jun 22 – Jun 28, 2026

469

Players

306

Solved

65%

Solve Rate

25.6

Avg Guesses

Numbers come from actual gameplay on this site.

Day by Day

Mon, Jun 2254 players

57% solved · ~32.7 guesses

Popular openers: animalbananafood

Tue, Jun 2355 players

56% solved · ~34.6 guesses

Popular openers: animalbananafoodplace

Wed, Jun 2468 players

60% solved · ~23.6 guesses

Popular openers: animalbananafood

Thu, Jun 2570 players

69% solved · ~23.5 guesses

Popular openers: animalbananafood

Fri, Jun 2680 players

78% solved · ~25.9 guesses

Popular openers: bananaanimalfoodthingcar

Sat, Jun 2767 players

78% solved · ~17.4 guesses

Popular openers: animalbananafood

Sun, Jun 2875 players

55% solved · ~21.7 guesses

Popular openers: bananaanimalfood

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.