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COOLY C
87.6%
of words eliminated

How COOLY performs

Played first, COOLY removes about 87.6% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.15 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #10,436 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, COOLY left an average of 297 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 20, 2026, when the answer was DIVER and 714 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

OutcomeCOOLY
First-turn solve*0%
At least one green43.1%
Any green or yellow69.7%
Whole row gray30.3%
Worst case answers left714

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