Who Sucked the Least This Week — Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026 🏆 @Nestking tops the board at 3.29 with a perfect 7 for 7, while @⚡️DEFAUXKING⚡️ plunged from 4th to dead last at 4.86, snapping a 25-day streak and a solve along the way. Nothing says "hard mode" like making it hard on yourself.

WORD5 #758 Twenty-four players, twenty-four purples, and the only thing that broke today was suspense. OTLNDR takes the crown with a 3/6 on Hard Mode, streak now 17 and somehow still accelerating. purrs_for_Her's 65-day streak barely noticed the 4/6 detour, YODL's 28 and Max Trotter's 28 both shrugged through at 5/6, and 龍興 尚幸 needed five squares just to keep a 40-day streak on life support. But let's talk about David II and NotBiebs and 69 others — both on Hard Mode, both riding real streaks, both somehow needing all six squares to find a word nobody else even sweated over. No losers today, just a lot of people making this harder than it needed to be. 🟪

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Trajectory of Decline @Yarnlady 🧶 slid from 3.71 to 5.0, @Turner from 3.25 to 4.33, and @Pete Winn from 4.0 to 4.86, a synchronized descent with excellent form. @Chris Krause went from 5.0 to 4.0, proof that the best way to improve is to start somewhere embarrassing.

CSI: Who Fell Apart @Nestking was the steadiest this week, with a spread of 1 across four games at 3.5, which is either discipline or a fear of adventure. @Pete Winn slipped from 4.0 to 4.86, falling apart so quietly that the bigger collapses didn't even notice.

WORD5 #757 Spooky season, zero tricks: all 27 of you solved puzzle 757, which is either a treat or just a very polite word. Max Trotter wins the night with a 2/6 on Hard Mode — streak now 27 and somehow not even out of breath. David II matched the 2/6 pace, 15 days deep. purrs_for_Her's 64-day streak keeps rolling like it's contractually obligated to never die. But six of you — Matt, Manbytword5, Brendio, Pete Winn, Ghost👻, Milo — rode this thing bumper to bumper all the way to square six for a word nobody else even broke a sweat on. Twenty-one hard-mode entries and still not one X. The puzzle brought a butter knife to a knife fight. 🟪

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WORD5 #756 A moment of silence, please: ⚡️DEFAUXKING⚡️'s 25-day streak is dead, snuffed out on Hard Mode, the self-imposed handicap turning into self-imposed demolition. 25 days of showing up, gone to an X nobody saw coming. Meanwhile Max Trotter tops the board with a 2/6 on Hard Mode, streak now at 26 — literally one day older than the streak that just got buried. Rough coincidence. Kat and David II kept their 15 and 14-day runs alive at 3/6, purrs_for_Her's monstrous 63-day streak survived a scare at 5/6, and twenty of today's twenty-four voluntarily played with a handicap. Blow out a candle for DEFAUXKING. 🟪⬛

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WORD5 #755 Puzzle 755 question of the day: can a word even fail anymore? 29 players, 29 purples, zero casualties, and Max Trotter tops it off with a 3/6 on Hard Mode for a streak now sitting at 25 — showing off while barely trying. Salty Cracker's debut landed a clean 3/6 right out of the gate, no notes. Meanwhile purrs_for_Her needed four just to babysit a 62-day streak into another week, and six separate hard-mode victims — DEFAUXKING, Matt FRL, Onyx Cat Pottery among them — ground out all six squares for a word with apparently zero teeth. Nobody lost. The puzzle should be embarrassed. 🟪

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WORD5 #754 Puzzle 754 verdict: 29 entrants, 29 purples, and the word simply forgot to put up a fight. purrs_for_Her coasts to a 3/6 on Hard Mode, stretching that streak to 61 days — at this point it's less a win and more a subscription renewal. Meanwhile four of you needed the full six squares just to land where everyone else parked early: 龍興 尚幸 (36-day streak and still taking the scenic route), Josh, Martina, and Pete Winn, all technically fine, all suspiciously slow. Twenty-three hard-mode volunteers tonight and the puzzle still couldn't land a single X. Enjoy the peace while it lasts — this can't keep happening. 🟪

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How the Sausage Gets Made — Oct 19 – 25, 2026 45 players, 217 games, a 99.1% solve rate, and the "pile of X's" is two lonely entries: @NotBiebs and 69 others, whose 18-game streak died on the 23rd, and @Onyx Cat Pottery, who lost a 20-game streak on the 25th. An average of 4.18 guesses means everyone got there eventually, just not gracefully.

WORD5 #753 Mark the calendar: kojira — yes, the same kojira with a history of six-guess marathons — closes out puzzle 753 in a crisp 2/6, no Hard Mode required, just vibes. The nerve. Meanwhile all 28 players solved it, 22 of them on Hard Mode, for a word that apparently waved a white flag before guess one. purrs_for_Her's 60-day streak barely broke a sweat on a 4/6, and Pinguimdarelva⚡'s 34-day run coasted right through untouched. Matt, bless him, ground out all six squares just to arrive at the party everyone else left an hour earlier. Zero casualties, zero suspense — truly a disgraceful showing from the word itself tonight. 🟪

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Musical Chairs: Losing Edition Musical chairs, losing edition: @⚡️DEFAUXKING⚡️ shot from 26th to 4th and @Chris Krause climbed from 32nd to 11th, while @Turner went from 3rd to 22nd and is still looking for his chair. Sit down faster next time, or at least stop averaging 4.33 while the music plays.

WORD5 #752 Puzzle 752 reporting zero casualties — all 30 of you solved it, which means either the word was made of cardboard or everyone secretly practiced. 龍興 尚幸 (TATSUOKI Takayuki) strolls off with a 2/6 on Hard Mode, hauling a 34-day streak that's starting to feel like tenure. purrs_for_Her's 59-day run barely registered the effort on a 3/6. Meanwhile Matt FRL and NotBiebs and 69 others needed all six squares, on Hard Mode, for a word twenty-two other hard-mode players cleared in three or fewer. Twenty-two of you volunteered for the handicap tonight against a puzzle with no teeth at all. Rest up — the word's due for a comeback.

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Who Sucked the Least This Week — Oct 19 – 25, 2026 freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg takes the top spot at 3.43 with seven solves in seven games, making the rest of the board look like it's still reading the rules. @Yarnlady 🧶 averaged a flat 5.0 and fell from 8th to 32nd, a drop so committed it deserves its own chart.

WORD5 #751 Today we gather to mourn Onyx Cat Pottery's 20-day streak, snuffed out by an X — on Hard Mode, so the universe really leaned into the irony of "disciplined guessing" betraying them at the final hour. Twenty days of loyalty, gone in six wasted squares. Meanwhile Pinguimdarelva⚡ casually extended a 32-day streak with a 3/6, like streak-breaking is something that happens to other people. purrs_for_Her limped to a 6/6 but kept 58 days alive, which is either admirable or a cry for help. Welcome, Markus Novik — you picked the one day someone else's house burned down instead of yours. 🟪⬛

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Character Development? @⚡️DEFAUXKING⚡️ slid from a 3.43 average to 4.57, and @purrs_for_Her from 3.71 to the exact same 4.57, which is less a decline than a synchronized routine. @Matt went from 5.0 to 3.71, the rare character arc where the protagonist actually learns something. @npub1qyxl...mu7u kept a spread of just 1 guess, refusing development on principle.

WORD5 #750 Puzzle 750, and the word apparently filed for an easy shift: 28 players, 28 purples, nobody sent home crying. freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg mops the floor in 2 on Hard Mode, streak at 6 and looking smug about it. Ghost👻 trailed in 3, dragging a 9-day streak behind. But gaze upon the 4/6 pile — twenty of you, TWENTY, needed four squares for a word two people solved half-asleep, purrs_for_Her included, casually hauling a 57-day streak through the mud. Max Trotter, Pete Winn, and TheRupertDamnit each needed all six, just to arrive at the same answer freeborn got in two. Riveting stuff. 🟪

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WORD5 #749 RIP to the 18-day streak formerly belonging to NotBiebs and 69 others — gone in one swift X, on Hard Mode, which really just adds insult to the eulogy. 18 days of discipline, extinguished for one word. Light a candle. Meanwhile Ghost👻 led a five-way tie for the day's fastest solve, a 3/6 on Hard Mode alongside Turner, Technical Debt, Chris Krause, and freeborn — bragging rights split five ways, no trophy big enough. Onyx Cat Pottery needed every square and still called it a win, somehow. purrs_for_Her's 56-day streak didn't even flinch. 🟪⬛

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WORD5 #748 Puzzle 748: 31 up, 31 purple, zero casualties — and freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg had the gall to close it out in 2 on Hard Mode, streak ticking to 4. Meanwhile six of you — Pinguimdarelva⚡, YODL, David II, Chris Krause, Matt FRL, seekthelooper — needed every last square for a word that offered literally no resistance to anyone else. purrs_for_Her's 55-day run, Yarnlady 🧶's 46, TheRupertDamnit's 36, and 龍興 尚幸's 30 all kept humming along untouched. Welcome to the board, Ajax — you showed up on the one night nobody went home with an X. 🟪

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WORD5 #747 Puzzle 747: 27 for 27, not a single casualty, and Manbytword5 had the audacity to solve it in 2 — on Hard Mode — pushing their streak to a whopping 2 days like they've been doing this forever. Meanwhile purrs_for_Her babysat a 54-day streak into a 4/6, Yarnlady 🧶 did the same for 45 days, and TheRupertDamnit needed three just to keep 35 alive. Twenty-two of you strapped on Hard Mode for a word with no bite. 龍興 尚幸 and kojira both rode it all the way to square six — still purple, still slow, still technically fine. Nobody lost. Everybody earned a very mediocre trophy. 🟪

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How the Sausage Gets Made — Oct 12 – 18, 2026 44 players, 210 games, and a 99.5% solve rate, so the "pile of X's" is really just one X sitting alone. An average of 4.15 guesses says the group got there eventually, like guests arriving for the snacks. @David II, @Milo and @Yarnlady 🧶 each got lucky once, which the group will treat as a personality.