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How BANIA performs

Played first, BANIA removes about 88.8% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.18 bits of information. It is not on the possible-answer list, but it can still be useful because of the feedback groups it creates.

Tried against 1,859 past Wordle answers, BANIA left an average of 265 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 13, 2026, when the answer was STOUT and 613 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

*Treating every word in the possible-answer list as equally likely.