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How ONTAL performs

Played first, ONTAL removes about 95.1% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 5.10 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #1,779 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, ONTAL left an average of 114 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 20, 2026, when the answer was DIVER and 284 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

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