Compare NICKY

How NICKY performs

Played first, NICKY removes about 86.3% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 3.94 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #11,915 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, NICKY left an average of 331 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 18, 2026, when the answer was BOOTH and 754 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

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