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MANIC C
92.2%
of words eliminated

How MANIC performs

Played first, MANIC removes about 92.2% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.66 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #5,545 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. Roughly 26% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.

Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, MANIC left an average of 186 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 18, 2026, when the answer was BOOTH and 479 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.

First-guess odds

OutcomeMANIC
First-turn solve*0.04%
At least one green26.0%
Any green or yellow79.7%
Whole row gray20.3%
Worst case answers left479

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