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PULED C
92.5%
of words eliminated

How PULED performs

Played first, PULED removes about 92.5% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.79 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #4,346 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, PULED left an average of 178 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 18, 2026, when the answer was BOOTH and 461 candidates survived.

First-guess odds

OutcomePULED
First-turn solve*0%
At least one green33.0%
Any green or yellow80.4%
Whole row gray19.6%
Worst case answers left461

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