A family league · 5 players · 1,566 puzzles · from the first day

The Wordle Fam League

Four and a half years of green squares, counted from the day Christie sent the link. Five seasons, a daily crown that ties refuse to award, and the best player in the family has never won one.

6,832
Results
1,566
Puzzles
4.01
Group average
141
Total failures

Day one

Season by season

A season is a calendar year. You win a day by posting the single best score. At least two people must play, and a tie awards nothing.

Each cell shows that season's finish and the win-loss record. Gold is the champion, red is last.

All time

Every day since the group was made in October 2022.

Nick has the best average in every season the family has played, the fewest failures by a distance, and the best career net, and he has never won a season. He turns out 77% of the time against Ma's 96%. In this league, being the best player and being the champion are different jobs.

The record book

Posting streaks run over consecutive puzzles. Solve streaks run over a player's own posts, so a skipped day does not break one.

Everyone is getting worse

Average score by season. The axis is flipped so lower scores sit higher: a rising line is a better season. The dashed line is the group.

Recovering the first eight months of 2022 overturned this. On the partial record Nick looked like the one player improving while the other four declined. His real 2022 is 3.70, so he did not improve, he started at his ceiling. Measured from 2023, the first complete season, to 2026, all five have got worse: Ma +0.26, Bryan +0.24, Christie +0.20, Nick +0.17, Old Man +0.09, against a group drift of +0.19. Five people declining together is not five people declining. It is much better evidence that the puzzles have got harder, and it is testable against published global averages. (2022 runs from 20 January and is missing that summer, so the trend is measured from 2023.)
Player average Group average

Form by month

The same measure at finer grain, 54 months of it. Same flipped axis: higher is better.

How they get there

Share of games finished in each number of guesses.

Solved Failed (X)

Head to head

Every day both players posted. The big number is the win margin, wins-losses-ties sits underneath.

The hardest day

The week

Group average by weekday across all 1,566 puzzles. The spread is small but it holds up over four and a half years.

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