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How ROUGH performs
Played first, ROUGH removes about 90.9% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.54 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #6,755 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. Roughly 27% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.
Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, ROUGH left an average of 214 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 14, 2026, when the answer was STEAK and 553 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.
First-guess odds
| Outcome | ROUGH |
|---|---|
| First-turn solve* | 0.04% |
| At least one green | 27.4% |
| Any green or yellow | 76.5% |
| Whole row gray | 23.5% |
| Worst case answers left | 553 |
*Treating every word in the possible-answer list as equally likely.