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CAROL B
95.7%
of words eliminated

How CAROL performs

Played first, CAROL removes about 95.7% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 5.39 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #468 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. Roughly 35% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.

Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, CAROL left an average of 100 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 16, 2026, when the answer was BUTTE and 286 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.

First-guess odds

OutcomeCAROL
First-turn solve*0.04%
At least one green34.9%
Any green or yellow87.9%
Whole row gray12.1%
Worst case answers left286

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