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How MELEE performs
Played first, MELEE removes about 86.0% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 3.88 bits of information. Roughly 45% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.
Tried against 1,859 past Wordle answers, MELEE left an average of 325 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 19, 2026, when the answer was CHURN and 761 candidates survived.
First-guess odds
| Outcome | MELEE |
|---|---|
| First-turn solve* | 0.04% |
| At least one green | 44.9% |
| Any green or yellow | 67.7% |
| Whole row gray | 32.3% |
| Worst case answers left | 761 |
*Treating every word in the possible-answer list as equally likely.