Opener Lab
Compare LOCAL
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How LOCAL performs
Played first, LOCAL removes about 90.7% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.41 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #8,078 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. Roughly 27% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.
Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, LOCAL left an average of 214 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 20, 2026, when the answer was DIVER and 515 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.
First-guess odds
| Outcome | LOCAL |
|---|---|
| First-turn solve* | 0.04% |
| At least one green | 26.6% |
| Any green or yellow | 78.2% |
| Whole row gray | 21.8% |
| Worst case answers left | 515 |
*Treating every word in the possible-answer list as equally likely.