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How SHAVE performs
Played first, SHAVE removes about 93.6% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 4.87 bits of information. Roughly 40% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.
Tried against 1,859 past Wordle answers, SHAVE left an average of 147 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 6, 2026, when the answer was TODDY and 369 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.
First-guess odds
| Outcome | SHAVE |
|---|---|
| First-turn solve* | 0.04% |
| At least one green | 40.5% |
| Any green or yellow | 84.4% |
| Whole row gray | 15.6% |
| Worst case answers left | 369 |
*Treating every word in the possible-answer list as equally likely.