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Compare BUSHY
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How BUSHY performs
Played first, BUSHY removes about 85.4% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 3.88 bits of information. Roughly 29% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.
Tried against 1,859 past Wordle answers, BUSHY left an average of 355 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 20, 2026, when the answer was DIVER and 785 candidates survived.
First-guess odds
| Outcome | BUSHY |
|---|---|
| First-turn solve* | 0.04% |
| At least one green | 29.3% |
| Any green or yellow | 66.7% |
| Whole row gray | 33.3% |
| Worst case answers left | 785 |
*Treating every word in the possible-answer list as equally likely.