Compare NIQAB

How NIQAB performs

Played first, NIQAB removes about 87.6% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 3.77 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #12,789 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, NIQAB left an average of 291 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 13, 2026, when the answer was STOUT and 606 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

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