STARE playbook

The best second guesses after STARE

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

Information
5.81 bits
Avg answers left
72.9
Avg solve
3.57 turns
Overall rank
#185

The six rows below cover 804 of 2,358 equally weighted answers (34.1%). They require 6 distinct Normal Mode replies and 6 Hard Mode replies.

STARE has appeared as a completed Wordle answer 1 time; the latest recorded date is 2024-12-30.

Most common outcomes

Six rows worth learning

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

Normal Mode

COLIN 6.55 average · 18 worst

Hard Mode

COLIN 6.55 average · 18 worst

The same move leads both modes on this branch.

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Normal Mode

NOILY 5.08 average · 12 worst

Hard Mode

CANAL 6.05 average · 14 worst

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

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Normal Mode

OILED 9.55 average · 19 worst

Hard Mode

OILER 10.42 average · 19 worst

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

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Normal Mode

LODEN 4.37 average · 9 worst

Hard Mode

LODEN 4.37 average · 9 worst

The same move leads both modes on this branch.

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Normal Mode

PRION 4.66 average · 10 worst

Hard Mode

PRION 4.66 average · 10 worst

The same move leads both modes on this branch.

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Normal Mode

HOING 4.29 average · 10 worst

Hard Mode

TINTO 4.43 average · 11 worst

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

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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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