Weekly Recap

Jul 6 – Jul 12, 2026

366

Players

190

Solved

51%

Solve Rate

34.1

Avg Guesses

Numbers come from actual gameplay on this site.

Day by Day

Mon, Jul 651 players

47% solved · ~26.4 guesses

Popular openers: animalbananafoodemotion

Tue, Jul 763 players

43% solved · ~40.1 guesses

Popular openers: bananaanimalfood

Wed, Jul 852 players

56% solved · ~32.1 guesses

Popular openers: animalbananafood

Thu, Jul 966 players

58% solved · ~33.2 guesses

Popular openers: animalfoodbananaplacewater

Fri, Jul 1064 players

59% solved · ~33.9 guesses

Popular openers: bananaanimalfood

Sat, Jul 1135 players

46% solved · ~27.8 guesses

Popular openers: bananaanimalfood

Sun, Jul 1235 players

51% solved · ~44.9 guesses

Popular openers: bananafoodanimal

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.