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DRONE B
95.5%
of words eliminated

How DRONE performs

Played first, DRONE removes about 95.5% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 5.39 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #460 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. Roughly 41% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.

Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, DRONE left an average of 103 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 15, 2026, when the answer was PSHAW and 331 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.

First-guess odds

OutcomeDRONE
First-turn solve*0.04%
At least one green40.8%
Any green or yellow86.0%
Whole row gray14.0%
Worst case answers left331

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