6 Letter Wordle Archive of Past Puzzles

Five steps to replay an old puzzle

1. Type a puzzle number in the first box, or choose a date in the second box. Puzzle 1 was the first daily game, played on March 20, 2026 by US Pacific time. The list ends with yesterday’s puzzle.
2. Press Play puzzle. The board opens on this page, and the address becomes /archive/?n= plus the number, so you can bookmark or send that exact puzzle.
3. Guess as you would in the daily game. You have six tries, every guess must be a real six-letter word and the colors follow the same rules, repeated letters included.
4. When the game ends, press Copy result. The text begins with “6 Letter Wordle Archive #” and the puzzle number, so nobody mistakes it for a daily score.
5. Check the month list to see which puzzles you won, lost or started. Tap any tile to open that puzzle, or press Random unplayed to let the page pick one you have not finished.

What stays apart from the daily game

Archive games get a save slot apart from everything else. This page writes only to browser keys that begin with archive-, and it leaves alone the keys that hold your daily streak and today’s board. Under the board you will find a separate played count, win rate, win streak and guess distribution.

Today’s puzzle is not on the list. It appears here the day after it runs. Future puzzles never appear, and the page also checks the number in the address, so a larger number typed into the address bar only shows a message. A finished puzzle stays on the board as you left it, which keeps old results from being counted twice.

Replaying puzzle #59

Puzzle 59 ran on May 17, 2026 by US Pacific time. Its answer was LADDER. A script played it so you can see a finished game. The first guess is SINTER, which tops the site’s starter ranking. Each later guess is the best-ranked word for the answers still possible, picked from a guess list that leaves out answers of later puzzles.

6 Letter Wordle Archive #59 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩
🟨⬛🟨⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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SINTER left 26 of the 682 answers in play. After the same opener, about 93 percent of puzzles #1 to #150 left fewer, so this one counts among the hard ones. The second guess, DRAWER, cut the field to a single word, so the third guess won.

The ten hardest and easiest past puzzles

Difficulty here has a narrow meaning: after one fixed opener, how many answers from this game’s list still fit the colors it produced. A small number means the opener nearly solved the puzzle, and a large one means a crowd of look-alikes survived. The tables cover puzzles #1 to #150.

Hardest

The top value of 26 is shared by 10 puzzles, so the table lists the first ten by number. All of them produce one color pattern: green in the last two places and gray in the first four. Every one of the ten ends in ER.

Easiest

A single answer is left in 17 puzzles, so this table also shows the first ten by number. In those games the opener alone fixed the answer.

How difficulty spreads across the first 150 puzzles

Sort every past puzzle by the number of answers left after the opener and the shape is lopsided. The median puzzle left 6 answers, yet the mean is 7.7, pulled up by a short tail of hard days.

Gentle puzzles are common: 17 left one answer and 55 left between two and five. A hard day, which here means 20 or more answers left, turned up 13 times, or 8.7 percent of the puzzles.

Those hard days mostly arrive alone. Back-to-back hard days happened 2 times and no run is longer than 2. The first of them is #92 and #93. On average 11.0 puzzles pass between one hard day and the next. The longest calm stretch with no hard day at all ran for 36 puzzles, from #16 to #51. The longest streak of easy days, with 3 or fewer answers left, lasted 5 puzzles, #44 to #48.

Month by month

Grouping the puzzles by month shows no steady trend, only drift.

The first month holds just 12 puzzles and the last holds 16, so their means rest on less data than the full months in between. May and June carry most of the hard days. The latest month has the highest mean, 10.6, and that is a small sample.

How the difficulty figures were produced

Numbering follows the home page. Both use the same day count from March 20, 2026, read against your device’s local date, and the answer is the entry at that position of this game’s answer list. That list holds 682 words, belongs to this game alone and has no official standing. It loops once it runs out. Guesses are checked against the full six-letter list of 18,195 words, which grew out of open Wordnik data. Sourcing and the MIT terms are noted in the word list credits on our About page.

The difficulty figures come from a script run on the current lists and rechecked by a test. The fixed opener comes from the starter ranking, where SINTER sits first. Averaged over all 682 answers it leaves 7.2 of them, and at its worst 26, which agrees with that ranking. The analysis stops at puzzle 150, so no figure here depends on today’s date. Dates in the tables are US Pacific dates.

Two limits matter. A count of answers left after one opener says nothing about vocabulary, so a puzzle with a rare word can feel hard even when the opener narrows it well. And the numbers describe one opener, so a player who starts with another word will find a different set of hard puzzles. To rank a next guess mid-replay, try the word helper that scores every candidate, and today’s game waits on the daily puzzle.