Compare HOACH

How HOACH performs

Played first, HOACH removes about 88.5% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.08 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #10,936 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, HOACH left an average of 262 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 20, 2026, when the answer was DIVER and 612 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

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