Compare GERMS

How GERMS performs

Played first, GERMS removes about 93.1% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.72 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #5,006 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, GERMS left an average of 164 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 18, 2026, when the answer was BOOTH and 399 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

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