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How DAISY performs
Played first, DAISY removes about 93.9% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.91 bits of information. Roughly 43% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.
Tried against 1,859 past Wordle answers, DAISY left an average of 149 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 19, 2026, when the answer was CHURN and 384 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.
First-guess odds
| Outcome | DAISY |
|---|---|
| First-turn solve* | 0.04% |
| At least one green | 43.3% |
| Any green or yellow | 83.7% |
| Whole row gray | 16.3% |
| Worst case answers left | 384 |
*Treating every word in the possible-answer list as equally likely.