Rebuilding and analysing 4 years of Wordle stats from WhatsApp chat logs

Yes, I’m still playing Wordle in 2026. According to Wordle, I’ve played 1,559 games, I win 99% of the time, my current streak is 107 days and my longest is 278. Four numbers, and they’re mostly correct. What I don’t get is anything behind them, no per-game history, no way to compare a Tuesday to a Sunday, no sense of whether I’ve actually got better at this over four years. Each day I’ve played, I’ve also shared the result to WhatsApp (a habit, not a data strategy), and it turns out that habit quietly built a far more detailed record than Wordle itself ever keeps, one I can finally ask my own questions of. So I looked into rebuilding my own copy of the data. The problem with Wordle’s own stats Since 30th June 2025, most of that data hasn’t even lived on the phone. It lives on my NYT account instead, server-side, which is exactly why today’s numbers survive a device switch, a cleared cache, a reinstall. I only know the precise date because of a fossil still sitting in my phone’s local…