After completing a Connections, Strands, or Wordle puzzle, press the "Share your result" button and copy your results. Paste them into this box and press submit to see your score! Scroll below to view recent scores, and the most difficult puzzles according to the submitted scores.
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Each game has a custom scoring system with a minimum and maximum amount of points. Submit your puzzle results to see how you scored against other players.
The plots below depict the distribution of scores for recent puzzles. The rectangle represents the 75th and 25th quartiles, and the black line shows the median of the distribution. The "whiskers" on top and bottom mark the end points of the distribution. A blue dot depicts the score submitted by the viewer. A puzzle's difficulty ranking is calculated using parameters of the score distribution.
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Connections
Points range from 0 to 180. '🟪' = 4 points, '🟦' = 3, '🟩' = 2, and '🟨' = 1 point. A mistake subtracts the row of points from the running score, and a correct answer adds the points for each square. Further, a multiplier is applied to correct answers: the first row of correct answers is worth x4, second row is x3, and so on. Guess the hard categories first for maximum score!
Strands
Points range from 0 to ~135. '🟡' = 10 points, '🔵' = 5 points, and '💡' = -5 points. The position of the yellow dot also is taken into account. A blue word found before the spanagram is worth fewer points. To get max points, find the spanagram first!
Wordle
Points range from 0 to 150. '⬜' = 5 points, '🟨' = 3 points, and '🟩' = 0 points. Each incorrect guess adds points, incorrect placement is worth fewer points. Guess the word with as few mistakes as possible and get the lowest score you can!
The puzzle's difficulty rank D is calculated with the mean score μ, score standard deviation σ, and skewness of score distribution δ. μ would make for a decent ranking, however, the spread of the data is can also contribute to a difficulty ranking. Two puzzles can have a similar mean score, but a higher spread in the score data indicates a higher difficulty. σ is considered in this case to increase or decrease the difficulty ranking. The coefficient of variation, σ / μ is a measure of how far the data of a distribution is spread out from the mean, and is useful for comparing multiple distributions together. How the distributions are skewed, either towards high or low scores, is also taken into account with δ. This helps score a distribution with outliers.
Finally, adjustable weights α and β are applied to the distribution parameters in order to achieve desired balance.
For Wordle, difficulty of the puzzle can be thought of as increasing with the score. The difficulty of Wordle puzzles is quantified as follows,
D = δ [ α μ + β σ μ ]
For Connections and Strands, lower scores indicate a harder puzzle, so the difficulty will increase inversely to the mean of the score distribution. A tiny decimal γ is added to avoid dividing by zero. The difficulty of these puzzles is quantified as,
D = δ [ α 1 μ + γ + β σ μ ]