Opener Lab

SLANE vs STRAE

See which word leaves you with the easier game.

SLANE leads in the current bounded six-turn policy

Both words are in the current screen of 182 openers, tested against 2,358 answers. Exact misses rank first; average guesses among wins break ties.

The same solver played from both openers. SLANE has the lower average in games solved within six: 3.46 guesses to 3.50 for STRAE.

Try SLANE in Practice View SLANE View STRAE

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.

Neither word is on the possible-answer list, so neither can solve the game on turn one here. Both can still be useful guesses.

SLANE and STRAE share 3 letters (A, E, S). Played as a pair they cover 7 distinct letters, which still gives the second word room to do useful work.

Played back to back, SLANE then STRAE earns 7.72 bits of information in total, 1.95 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.