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SPORE B
95.5%
of words eliminated

How SPORE performs

Played first, SPORE removes about 95.5% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 5.34 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #626 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. Roughly 40% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.

Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, SPORE left an average of 106 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on July 12, 2026, when the answer was CLACK and 300 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer once.

First-guess odds

OutcomeSPORE
First-turn solve*0.04%
At least one green40.3%
Any green or yellow87.3%
Whole row gray12.7%
Worst case answers left300

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