Compare BONES

How BONES performs

Played first, BONES removes about 94.1% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.94 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #2,917 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. It is not on the possible-answer list, but it can still be useful because of the feedback groups it creates.

Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, BONES left an average of 139 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 12, 2026, when the answer was CLACK and 333 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

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