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POGGE C
88.5%
of words eliminated

How POGGE performs

Played first, POGGE removes about 88.5% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.02 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #11,367 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, POGGE left an average of 267 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 19, 2026, when the answer was CHURN and 576 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

OutcomePOGGE
First-turn solve*0%
At least one green36.0%
Any green or yellow75.6%
Whole row gray24.4%
Worst case answers left576

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