Wordle 200 5/6
First time it’s taken me more than four guesses.
thank you, i thought of tesla early but felt dirty for using it lol
it turns out it’s very easy to maintain a 100% win rate if you give up
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Wordle 200 3/6
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Wordle 200 5/6
It didn’t really help lol
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I used SAINT as my first word, which worked alright.
Wordle 200 4/6
Used TARES as my starting word today.
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Wordle 200 5/6
I think I find the copy-pasted guess patterns more interesting than the game itself, sort of seeing the way people parse out their guesses
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Wordle 200 5/6
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ok, TIMER, but what else could go in that slot that’s not the solution?
Wordle 200 4/6
Got much luckier than yesterday, where the one correct letter just got my brain into a place where I couldn’t think of alternatives.
First word: BEANS. Second word: TRIED
im releasing a balance patch for the dictionary
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I updated the spreadsheet to provide a score for every word based on what letters have been eliminated + what letters are known + the frequency of each letter in the wordlist. problem: since E is so common, words like “reree” (which is not a word dawg) get very high scores after eliminating a few letters.
So I added another column that counts unique characters in a word, so that way I can quickly go to the highest scoring word with 5 unique letters - this should be the best possible testing word early on.
after narrowing it down to 1 missing letter, I used my best judgment to pick words that were good tests + not bullshit words (looking at you, tiber).
I used this method to test it out on today’s puzzle as if I didn’t know the solution, starting with “AROSE” as the first word:
Wordle 200 5/6
it didn’t fuckin help lol
Anyway my conclusions from this are:
- The words are picked by hand to avoid bullshit words, which apparently make up the bulk of words in the english language
- AROSE or ORATE are probably the best test words - I like S so I’ll use AROSE
- This game is still mostly luck - even using a combination of Best Possible Choices Statistically + human judgment, it took 5 tries
- I’m not a programmer
Thank you for joining me on this journey to nowhere, I will not be releasing my spreadsheet nor will I be using it to solve puzzles.
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I’m really curious about your second word here: I can’t think of any other words that start with the same three letters as the answer.
in order of most to least likely:
tirer
tiler - I almost did this one when solving for it originally
titer
ticer
tiber
tiver
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SAINT,
TIGHT,
TIGER
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oh, so if you have the same letter twice, one in the correct position and the other not used elsewhere in the word, the second is marked as gray and not yellow? that’s interesting
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yeah you don’t get any hinting around repeated letters, which is the only really sticky design choice here I’ve notice
See, I knew I wasn’t making it up
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oh, i wouldn’t have got that … was really hoping you tried tigon tho
Wordle 200 5/6
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