SLATE playbook

The best second guesses after SLATE

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

Information
5.86 bits
Avg answers left
73.5
Avg solve
3.55 turns
Overall rank
#87

The six rows below cover 822 of 2,358 equally weighted answers (34.9%). They require 6 distinct Normal Mode replies and 6 Hard Mode replies.

SLATE has appeared as a completed Wordle answer 1 time; the latest recorded date is 2022-12-19.

Most common outcomes

Six rows worth learning

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

Normal Mode

CORNU 6.41 average · 16 worst

Hard Mode

CORNU 6.41 average · 16 worst

The same move leads both modes on this branch.

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Normal Mode

NIDOR 6.70 average · 18 worst

Hard Mode

DONER 7.34 average · 20 worst

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

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Normal Mode

RIMON 4.76 average · 13 worst

Hard Mode

MARON 5.06 average · 14 worst

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

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Normal Mode

GROIN 4.09 average · 8 worst

Hard Mode

GRICE 6.15 average · 10 worst

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

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Normal Mode

HOING 3.29 average · 6 worst

Hard Mode

TORIC 3.33 average · 7 worst

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

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Normal Mode

DILLY 3.68 average · 7 worst

Hard Mode

DILLY 3.68 average · 7 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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