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How PROVE performs
Played first, PROVE removes about 93.1% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.80 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #4,245 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. Roughly 37% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.
Tried against 1,860 past Wordle answers, PROVE left an average of 161 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 21, 2026, when the answer was SHILL and 443 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.
First-guess odds
| Outcome | PROVE |
|---|---|
| First-turn solve* | 0.04% |
| At least one green | 36.9% |
| Any green or yellow | 81.2% |
| Whole row gray | 18.8% |
| Worst case answers left | 443 |
*Treating every word in the possible-answer list as equally likely.