Opener Lab
Compare BEGAN
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How BEGAN performs
Played first, BEGAN removes about 92.5% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.73 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #4,925 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. Roughly 28% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.
Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, BEGAN left an average of 174 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 13, 2026, when the answer was STOUT and 404 candidates survived.
First-guess odds
| Outcome | BEGAN |
|---|---|
| First-turn solve* | 0.04% |
| At least one green | 27.9% |
| Any green or yellow | 82.9% |
| Whole row gray | 17.1% |
| Worst case answers left | 404 |
*Treating every word in the possible-answer list as equally likely.