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How BANKS performs

Played first, BANKS removes about 89.7% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.27 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, BANKS left an average of 244 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 20, 2026, when the answer was DIVER and 599 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

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