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PASTY C
92.5%
of words eliminated

How PASTY performs

Played first, PASTY removes about 92.5% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.77 bits of information. Roughly 34% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.

Tried against 1,859 past Wordle answers, PASTY left an average of 183 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 20, 2026, when the answer was DIVER and 473 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

OutcomePASTY
First-turn solve*0.04%
At least one green34.0%
Any green or yellow79.9%
Whole row gray20.1%
Worst case answers left473

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