Opener Lab

ROAST vs TRAPE

See which word leaves you with the easier game.

ROAST leads in the current bounded six-turn policy

Both words are in the current screen of 182 openers, tested against 2,360 answers. Exact misses rank first; average guesses among wins break ties.

The same solver played from both openers. ROAST has the lower average in games solved within six: 3.46 guesses to 3.49 for TRAPE.

Try ROAST in Practice View ROAST View TRAPE

What to expect from the first guess

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

Both openers come back completely gray at almost the same rate, so the difference between them lies in how much their hits actually tell you.

TRAPE is not on the possible-answer list, so it cannot solve the game on turn one here. It can still be a useful guess.

ROAST and TRAPE share 3 letters (A, R, T). Played as a pair they cover 7 distinct letters, which still gives the second word room to do useful work.

Played back to back, ROAST then TRAPE earns 7.71 bits of information in total, 2.06 bits more than the better word manages alone.

Elimination %: How much of the possible-answer list the guess rules out on average.
Avg turns: Average guesses needed by the same solver in games it finished within six.
Win rate: Share of answers the solver finished within six guesses.
Information: First-turn entropy in bits; higher means more informative feedback on average.
Tier: A band for first-turn information only: S is 5.8 bits or more, A 5.4, B 4.8, C 4.0, F below that. It describes the opening row, so a tier A word can still lead the six-turn table below.