Admin Updated: 25 May 2026 · Reading time: 4 minutes Click the stats icon in Wordle® and you’ll see your numbers: games played, win percentage, current streak, max streak, and a bar chart showing how often you’ve solved in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 guesses. Those numbers actually mean something. The five stats Wordle® … Read more
Updated: 25 May 2026 · Reading time: 4 minutes You’ve been playing Wordle® free for years. Then you notice a prompt: “Subscribe to NYT Games for full access.” For around NZD 12 a month, you can unlock the Wordle® archive, Spelling Bee Queen Bee rank, the Crossword, and a few other puzzles. Is it worth … Read more
Updated: 25 May 2026 · Reading time: 5 minutes Wordle® is now played by millions daily — including a large chunk of New Zealand. But in mid-2021, it didn’t exist. By the start of 2022 it was a Twitter sensation. By the end of 2022, The New York Times had bought it for a low … Read more
Updated: 25 May 2026 · Reading time: 5 minutes Wordle® has snuck into Kiwi family routines in a quietly brilliant way. Five minutes around the kitchen table after breakfast. One puzzle. Three brains. Everyone wins. Why Wordle® works for Kiwi families Five minutes, no setup. Open a website, you’re playing. Year 4 kids and grandparents … Read more
Updated: 25 May 2026 · Reading time: 4 minutes Q, X, and Z are the three rarest letters in English. They’re also the three letters that turn a stuck Wordle® puzzle into a guaranteed win — when used at the right time. The frequency reality check Of the curated Wordle® answer list (~2,500 words): K … Read more
Updated: 25 May 2026 · Reading time: 4 minutes You’ve burned three guesses, you’ve got two greens and a yellow, and your brain has gone completely blank. You don’t want to lose, but you also don’t want to look up the answer and feel like you cheated. Here are 5 ways NZ Wordle® players get … Read more
Updated: 25 May 2026 · Reading time: 4 minutes You missed yesterday’s Wordle® entirely, or you saw the answer fly past your eye on social media. Either way, you’d like to look back at what the answer was — maybe to redeem your honour, maybe just curiosity. The straightforward answer Check our 7-day archive at … Read more
Updated: 25 May 2026 · Reading time: 4 minutes You’re at guess 4. Two greens, one yellow, half the alphabet eliminated. Your candidate list is somewhere between 3 and 15 words and you can’t tell which one is right. This is when a Wordle® solver earns its keep. Here’s how to use one effectively, when … Read more
Updated: 25 May 2026 · Reading time: 5 minutes A 100-day Wordle® streak is a real source of Kiwi pride. 500-day starts attracting comments. 1,000-day is legend territory. The catch: one missed day or one loss undoes a year of habit. Here’s how regular NZ players keep streaks alive — both discipline and smart play. … Read more
Updated: 25 May 2026 · Reading time: 4 minutes Buried in the Wordle® settings menu is a toggle marked “Hard Mode”. Most Kiwi players never notice it. Some flick it on by accident and curse themselves for the rest of the week. What is Wordle® Hard Mode? Normal Wordle® lets you guess any valid five-letter … Read more