Compare KIDGE

How KIDGE performs

Played first, KIDGE removes about 90.1% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.31 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #9,013 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 1,859 past Wordle answers, KIDGE left an average of 231 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 19, 2026, when the answer was CHURN and 547 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

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