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BRACE B
95.3%
of words eliminated

How BRACE performs

Played first, BRACE removes about 95.3% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 5.38 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #500 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. Roughly 43% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.

Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, BRACE left an average of 106 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 13, 2026, when the answer was STOUT and 335 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.

First-guess odds

OutcomeBRACE
First-turn solve*0.04%
At least one green42.6%
Any green or yellow85.8%
Whole row gray14.2%
Worst case answers left335

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