CRANE playbook

The best second guesses after CRANE

These are the six feedback branches you are most likely to see after CRANE. Normal Mode can spend a turn testing letters; Hard Mode must obey every coloured tile.

Information
5.73 bits
Avg answers left
81.2
Avg solve
3.55 turns
Overall rank
#77

The six rows below cover 858 of 2,358 equally weighted answers (36.4%). They require 6 distinct Normal Mode replies and 6 Hard Mode replies.

CRANE has appeared as a completed Wordle answer 1 time; the latest recorded date is 2023-06-21.

Most common outcomes

Six rows worth learning

Gray, yellow and green tiles follow exact Wordle duplicate-letter rules.

Normal Mode

SMOLT 6.94 average · 16 worst

Hard Mode

SMOLT 6.94 average · 16 worst

The same move leads both modes on this branch.

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Normal Mode

TOSYL 5.11 average · 11 worst

Hard Mode

SALAT 5.54 average · 14 worst

Normal Mode gains by leaving the Hard Mode lane for a stronger splitter.

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Normal Mode

TELES 4.27 average · 11 worst

Hard Mode

TELES 4.27 average · 11 worst

The same move leads both modes on this branch.

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Normal Mode

OILET 10.49 average · 20 worst

Hard Mode

ROSET 11.82 average · 27 worst

Normal Mode gains by leaving the Hard Mode lane for a stronger splitter.

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Normal Mode

SLUIT 3.39 average · 6 worst

Hard Mode

TOILE 5.37 average · 11 worst

Normal Mode gains by leaving the Hard Mode lane for a stronger splitter.

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Normal Mode

TYROS 3.15 average · 5 worst

Hard Mode

TYROS 3.15 average · 5 worst

The same move leads both modes on this branch.

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How to use it

Treat the table as a map, not a script

The ranking minimizes the number of working-pool answers expected after turn two, then protects against the largest unhelpful feedback group. It compares 14,855 accepted guesses against 2,358 possible answers.

The overall opener rank and average-solve figure use the latest complete six-turn simulation snapshot (2,354 answers). Branch probabilities and second-guess recommendations are recalculated on the current 2,358-answer pool.

A fixed memorized reply cannot be best for every row. If your result is not one of these six, paint it in the exact explorer. Query-prefilled explorer states are deliberately noindex and keep the bare tool as their canonical URL.

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