Compare EVENS

How EVENS performs

Played first, EVENS removes about 87.6% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 3.92 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #12,038 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 1,860 past Wordle answers, EVENS left an average of 290 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 22, 2026, when the answer was LORRY and 614 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

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