A streak is a count of days in a row, and every daily game keeps its own. Most streaks break for one of a few reasons: the game's day ended sooner than you expected, the record lived on a phone you replaced, or a browser forgot it. Knowing when a game's day ends and where it keeps your record prevents most of them.
Below: how reset times work, what changes when you switch devices, which listed games carry a streak with an account and what their own pages say, the New York Times' rules for Wordle, and how the dock on this site counts a streak of its own.
Daily games keep time in one of two ways. Some follow the clock on your phone or computer, so the new puzzle arrives at 12:00 a.m. wherever you are. Wordle, Connections and Strands work this way: the NYT's help pages say each one comes out at 12:00 a.m. local time.
Others change over at one moment for everyone, most often midnight UTC. Metazooa, Cutle and Scrandle are among the listed games that switch then, which is 7:00 p.m. in New York in winter and 8:00 p.m. in summer. The reset times page shows which rule each game follows, for every game that publishes one.
On a game that follows your own midnight, the risk is finishing late. The NYT says a Wordle, Connections or Strands puzzle finished after midnight local time breaks your streak and starts a new one, even if you began it before midnight. Leave yourself time when you start a puzzle late at night.
On a game that changes at midnight UTC, the switch comes in the evening across the Americas, and an uneven routine can skip a puzzle. Play at 6 p.m. on a Monday in New York in winter, before the switch, and at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, after it, and Tuesday's puzzle came and went between your two sessions: on Tuesday night you were already playing Wednesday's. A game that counts its streak by consecutive puzzles would start you over. Playing at about the same time each day, on the same side of the switch, avoids it.
Without an account, a web game can only keep your record in the browser on that device, in its local storage or a cookie. Weaver, for one, says its stats live in local storage, and Doctordle says it uses cookies to save your progress. That record does not travel. A new phone, a different browser on the same computer, or clearing a site's data starts you from zero, and a private or incognito window throws its storage away when you close it.
If a game offers an account, sign in on the device that holds your current record before you switch, then sign in to the same account on the new one. Whether a record from before you signed in joins the account depends on the game, and the entries below say what each one's own page promises. A few games let you carry a record without an account; they are listed after the account games.
Signing in moves the record off the device and onto the game's own servers, so it follows you. These listed games say on their own pages what an account keeps.
The NYT says your Wordle progress and stats attach themselves to your NYT account, but only while you are logged in, and it recommends an account for playing on more than one device. No subscription is needed for the daily puzzle; subscribers' stats also count archive puzzles.
Progress and stats attach to an NYT account, with the stats page counting puzzles from June 15, 2024 onward. The streak counts wins in a row, and a win means solving with fewer than four mistakes. The NYT says a broken Connections streak cannot be reset.
Also tied to an NYT account once you are logged in. Here the streak counts days in a row on which you completed that day's puzzle, rather than wins, and stats run from July 8, 2025. The help page says a broken Strands streak cannot be reset.
Offers an account made with your email or a social profile, and says your stats then sync across every device you log in on. The stats screen shows your current and best streak, and puzzles from the Waffle archive never count toward your regular stats.
A free account, the site says, saves your win streaks and solve times and syncs your progress across devices. Hey, Good Game, the studio behind it, offers the same kind of account on Mathler, where it promises saved stats and a record of your streaks.
A free account keeps your results history and opens both the current and the previous week's puzzles, according to the site. Since the puzzles get harder from Monday to Sunday, a saved history is a handy way to see how your week went.
A free account keeps your streaks and ranks your results in the separate par-3 challenge, and the paid Premium plan lists a Streak Saver among its extras. New holes arrive at 12:00 a.m. Central time, which is 1:00 a.m. in New York.
These keep your record in the browser, but give you a way to move it or say plainly how much they keep.
Saves your game as you go and keeps stats and streaks on the device you play on. Its maker added a save export and import, at the start and in the options screen, so you can move your stats to another device yourself instead of starting over.
Keeps its stats in your browser's local storage, separately for each of its 19 languages. Ladders from the archive never touch your streak, so catching up on an old puzzle is safe, but clearing the site's data clears the stats with it.
Needs no account at all. A Save option in the menu issues a private ID, and entering that ID on another device restores your progress there, so a phone and a computer can share one record without any sign-in.
Shows you a user ID and offers two ways to move your quiz history between devices: link a Google account to sync it, or use its Export Quiz History and Import Quiz History buttons to carry it over yourself.
Without an account, its page says, the browser you play in keeps about 150 of your past games, so that history stays on one device. A Log in button is there for players who want an account.
The Wordle help page is plain about the rules. Current Streak counts wins in a row, so a puzzle you fail ends it just as a missed day does. A puzzle only counts if you solve it before your local midnight, and finishing one after midnight breaks the streak and starts a new one.
Your progress and stats attach themselves to your NYT account, but the page asks you to confirm you are logged in to save them, so the first thing to check after a lost streak is that you are signed in to the right account. If you are and the stats still look wrong, it points to two routes: Report a Bug, found under the settings icon in the app, and Contact Us, which on the website opens a chat with a virtual assistant. It adds that its staff can sometimes put a streak back by hand.
For a new phone, the NYT's answer is the account: log in with the same NYT account and play there. The Connections and Strands help pages use the same midnight rule, and both say a streak cannot be reset once it is broken.
The dock at the bottom of every page here keeps a streak of its own, separate from any game's. A game counts as played for the day when you open it from Today's Dailies, with its Play button or its tile in the dock. The site cannot see inside the games, so it does not know whether you solved the puzzle, and a game you open from a bookmark is not counted.
Your streak is the number of days in a row on which you opened every game in that day's lineup, and the lineup that counts is the one you had the last time you opened a game that day. Days run from midnight to midnight on your device's clock, whatever time each game resets; the tick on a game clears when its next puzzle comes out. Until today's lineup is done, the count shows the run up to yesterday, so a streak is not lost until the day is over. To untick a game opened by mistake, right-click it in the dock, or press and hold it on a phone.
Without an account, all of this stays in your browser's local storage on that device, up to ten weeks of days. An account is optional: sign in with Google, Apple, or an email and a password, and your lineup, ticks and days are kept with it, so every phone and computer you sign in on shows the same streak, and a new phone picks up where the old one left off.
Every game named here is listed on Today's Dailies, so it is free, plays in a web browser and needs no account for its daily puzzle, and its link is checked every night. What each entry says about accounts, streaks and saving comes from the game's own site or help pages, read on November 4 and 5, 2026; the help pages are linked under Sources. Reset times come from each game's own site or countdown, and the dock's rules from this site's own code. All 12 picks were opened in a phone-sized browser between November 4 and November 5, 2026 and loaded, and each one fit the screen without sideways scrolling.
According to the NYT's Wordle help page, the streak counts wins in a row, a puzzle only counts if you solve it before your local midnight, and finishing after midnight breaks it. Stats are saved to your NYT account only while you are logged in, so check that you are signed in to the right account.
Log in with the same NYT account on the new phone. The NYT says Wordle progress and stats attach to your account while you are logged in, and it recommends an account for playing across devices.
It depends on the game. For Wordle, the NYT points to Report a Bug under settings in its app, or to Contact Us on its website, and says its staff can sometimes put a streak back by hand. For Connections and Strands, its help pages say a broken streak cannot be reset. Daily 9 lists a Streak Saver in its paid plan.
No. The dock counts a game as played when you open it from this site, and it cannot see inside the game. Its streak counts the days in a row on which you opened every game in your lineup, by your own device's calendar.
