Some Statistics for the Daily Word Search Itself

Thanks to Stewart's blogs and charts, we are all aware of how many takes this wonderful minigame is getting every day, and how it has boosted the overall takes of JetPunk minigames in just two months. However, have you ever tried to compile some stats about the puzzles themselves? Well, now you don't have to - this blog shares with you some interesting statistics about the word search puzzles!

Before we begin, I just want to point out a few things:

✔ These data only include word search puzzles from March 1 onwards because the minigame underwent a major change prior to that, i.e. "Capitals Thursday" was changed to "History Thursday". On top of that, I missed three word searches in February (because I was preparing for a test), so unfortunately I can't share with you the all-time stats.

✔ This blog only includes data about the puzzles themselves, more specifically, the number of words contained in the grids.

✔ From March 1 (#29) to April 9 (#68), there were 717 total words in all grids, averaging about 17.9 words per grid.

✔ The puzzle with the most words was puzzle #41 (a Sunday), with 30 words; the puzzles with the fewest words were puzzles #42 (Mon, Mar 14), #53 (Fri, Mar 25), #56 (Mon, Mar 28), and #66 (Thu, Apr 7), all with 11 words.

✔ Overall, Sundays' puzzles had the most words in them (21 in average grid), and Mondays' puzzles had the fewest words in them (14.6 in average grid).

The top 5 puzzles with the most and fewest words are listed below:

The following table summarizes the average number of words per grid for each weekday:

The following table summarizes the variance (a measure of how spread out the data are) of the number of words in a grid for each weekday:

As you can see, the number of words in Saturdays' puzzles was the most consistent throughout this period, whereas Tuesdays' puzzles were the most unpredictable in terms of the number of words in a grid.

This new minigame has been great so far, and its statistics are pretty interesting too. I am looking forward to seeing this minigame improve even more and compiling more stats to share with you in the future.