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 colored tile.

Information
5.73 bits
Avg answers left
81.8
Avg solve
3.55 turns
Overall rank
#77

The six rows below cover 864 of 2,374 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 6.97 average · 16 worst

Hard Mode

SMOLT 6.97 average · 16 worst

The same move leads both modes on this branch.

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Normal Mode

TOSYL 5.16 average · 11 worst

Hard Mode

SALAT 5.52 average · 14 worst

Leaving the Hard Mode lane saves about 0.36 answers on average here.

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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 10.46 average · 20 worst

Hard Mode

ROSET 11.76 average · 27 worst

Leaving the Hard Mode lane saves about 1.30 answers on average here.

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Normal Mode

TOILS 3.46 average · 8 worst

Hard Mode

TOILE 5.48 average · 11 worst

Leaving the Hard Mode lane saves about 2.02 answers on average here.

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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

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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 2,374 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 2,374-answer pool.

A fixed reply cannot be best for every feedback result. If your result is not one of these six, enter all five tiles in the calculator. Prefilled results are temporary views of the same calculator.

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