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How HIVED performs

Played first, HIVED removes about 89.8% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.30 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #9,189 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, HIVED left an average of 238 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 13, 2026, when the answer was STOUT and 549 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

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