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DALLY C
87.2%
of words eliminated

How DALLY performs

Played first, DALLY removes about 87.2% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.10 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #10,739 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, DALLY left an average of 304 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 19, 2026, when the answer was CHURN and 716 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.

First-guess odds

OutcomeDALLY
First-turn solve*0.04%
At least one green35.0%
Any green or yellow69.6%
Whole row gray30.4%
Worst case answers left716

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