Rules & Fair Play
Everything you need to know about how Wordle Analytics works, how scores are calculated, and what we expect from members.
Membership
Who can join
1
One account per person
Each member may have one WA account. Creating multiple accounts to manipulate rankings is grounds for removal.
2
Real Wordle games only
WA tracks the official NYT Wordle only — not clones, practice modes, or archived puzzles played out of order.
3
Statistics required to join
New members must upload their Wordle statistics screenshot during onboarding. This establishes your baseline game history.
Scoring
How scores work
1
Hole in one
2
Excellent
3
Very good
4
Good
5
Average
6
Tough day
7
Lost
Score value: The number of guesses used to solve the puzzle. A lost game scores 7. Lower is better.
Average score: Your mean score across all uploaded games, calculated to 6 decimal places. This is WA's primary ranking metric.
30-day average: Your mean score across the last 30 days only. Used for the default leaderboard. Resets the competition every month so recent performance matters most.
Days not played: If you simply did not play Wordle on a given day, that day is excluded from your average entirely. WA does not penalize members for not playing.
Verified missing games: If your statistics screenshot shows more total games than WA has on record during your active membership period, those missing games are assigned a score of 7 in your average calculation. This prevents members from selectively omitting poor scores.
Leaderboards
Leaderboard eligibility
✓
30-day rolling leaderboard
You must have uploaded a result for every day you played Wordle in the last 30 days with no missing uploads. Missing even one day disqualifies you from the 30-day rank for that period. This is the strictest and most prestigious leaderboard.
✓
All-time leaderboard
Requires a minimum of 30 uploaded games. No daily upload requirement — ranked by all-time average score.
✓
Country leaderboard
A country must have at least 3 active members to appear. Country average is the mean of all member 30-day averages from that country.
✓
2-guess leaders
Requires a minimum of 30 uploaded games. Ranked by the percentage of all games solved in exactly 2 guesses.
Streaks
How streaks work
Active streak: The number of consecutive days you have uploaded a game result. Uploading every day keeps it alive.
Streak break: Any day you do not upload — regardless of whether you played Wordle — breaks your streak. The streak resets to zero the following day.
No exceptions: Streaks follow the same strict rules as the NYT Wordle streak. Travel, illness, and technical issues are understandable but do not extend the deadline. Uploading before midnight in your local time zone is recommended.
Max streak: Your longest streak ever achieved is permanently recorded even if your current streak is broken.
Analytics access
Daily upload requirement
Analytics are locked until you upload today's result. This prevents members from seeing how other members performed — which could reveal the target word — before they have played themselves.
Once you upload today's game result, all charts, leaderboards, and analytics unlock for the rest of the day. Skipping the upload means analytics stay locked for that day. The admin account is exempt from this restriction.
WA Rating
How your WA Rating is calculated
The WA Rating is a composite skill score from 0 to 100 where higher is better. It combines two components:
60%
30-day average score
Recent performance
40%
All-time 2-guess win %
Lifetime skill indicator
The rating uses a curve that rewards elite performance — a member averaging under 3.0 with a strong 2-guess win rate will score in the 90s. The NYT average player scores approximately 45–50. Requires a minimum of 30 uploaded games to appear on the WA Rating leaderboard.
Screenshots
What to upload
✓ Do this — screenshot the in-game board: The screen showing your colored tiles with letters inside them. This gives WA the most data including your full guess sequence and start word.
✗ Not this — do not use Wordle Share: The Share function produces only colored squares with no letters. WA cannot extract your guesses from a share grid and will reject it.
Color schemes: WA accepts all Wordle color schemes — standard (green/yellow/gray) and color-blind safe (orange/blue/gray). Both are detected automatically.
Statistics screenshots: Upload from the Wordle statistics page (bar chart icon) or from the post-game results screen showing your guess distribution. Both are accepted.
Fair play
Honor system
WA is built on the honor system. The leaderboard is only meaningful if everyone competes genuinely.
Play independently: Members are expected to play Wordle without prior knowledge of the target word. Watching someone else play first, looking up the answer, or any other form of advance knowledge violates the spirit of WA.
Upload your own results: Only upload screenshots from your own Wordle account. Uploading another person's results as your own is not permitted.
No selective omission: The 30-day leaderboard requires uploading every day you play. Choosing not to upload a bad score to protect your average undermines the competition and disqualifies you from the rolling rank.
Admin review: Accounts showing statistically unusual patterns may be reviewed by the admin and removed from leaderboards at the admin's discretion. WA does not make public accusations — reviews are handled privately.
About WA
Disclaimer
Wordle Analytics is an independent fan project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the New York Times or the official Wordle game. All Wordle trademarks and game content belong to the New York Times. WA simply helps players track and compare their own results.