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BEAST B
95.3%
of words eliminated

How BEAST performs

Played first, BEAST removes about 95.3% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 5.37 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #529 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. Roughly 39% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.

Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, BEAST left an average of 109 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 19, 2026, when the answer was CHURN and 303 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.

First-guess odds

OutcomeBEAST
First-turn solve*0.04%
At least one green39.0%
Any green or yellow87.2%
Whole row gray12.8%
Worst case answers left303

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