Opener Lab

CRONE vs SLANT

See which word leaves you with the easier game.

SLANT 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. SLANT has the lower average in games solved within six: 3.45 guesses to 3.48 for CRONE.

Try SLANT in Practice View CRONE View SLANT

What to expect from the first guess

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

A fully gray row is rarer with CRONE: it happens 12.5% of the time, against 13.8% for SLANT.

CRONE and SLANT overlap on a single letter (N), so the pair tests 9 different letters between them.

Played back to back, CRONE then SLANT earns 9.06 bits of information in total, 3.56 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.