These words are usually credited to the acclaimed genius Albert Einstein. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. One popular formulation presents this point harshly: Kelly? Rita Mae Brown? John Larroquette? Jessie Potter? Werner Erhard?ĭear Quote Investigator: It’s foolish to repeat ineffective actions. So, surprisingly, the game is easier if you are not a "savant", or to be more precise, if you are not a computer :-).Albert Einstein? Al-Anon? Narcotics Anonymous? Max Nordau? George Bernard Shaw? Samuel Beckett? George A.
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So if you play optimally or close to it, it is only in very rare cases (the worst case) that you will need the full 6 or 7 guesses. Even then, the average number of guesses that you need is much lower, at 3.5 guesses (or 4.5 using all 12k words). However, if you know 12k 5-letter English words and if you don't assume that the hidden word is "reasonable", then you will sometimes need 7 guesses.Ģ. It has been shown that in hard mode you can always solve wordle in 6 guesses (but not always in 5) if you assume that the hidden word is "reasonable", i.e., taken from the 2k-word list. There are two reasons that you always win within 6 guesses:ġ. However, the hidden/secret words are picked from a much smaller set of 2k reasonable words (i.e., frequent ones, and that most people would describe as English words). Wordle works with a 12k-word dictionary, which is very much comprehensive (that includes "words" like "grrrl"). There I've pretty much settled on finding a set of 3 words that covers all vowels (and Y) and 9 of the most common consonants. That one's harder and the strategy is a little different.
I also toy around with Quordle where you have 9 guesses to find 4 words. If you get COAST and AT are in the word but in the wrong position, should your next attempt be 5 new letters or a word containing AT in different positions? The disadvantage of this of course is you're only testing 3 new letters. It's also an interesting question as to when it's worth switching from finding what letters are in the word vs locking down their position.
I'd be curious to know this too.īut I'm curious how good an optimal strategy would be vs some of the naive strategies we've all chosen. It may be possible that a second fixed word (or a small set of second words easily memorized) would be near-optimal but not actually optimal. I'm sure others have looked into this but this is something I'd like to do myself.Īfter that it branches depending on what hits you get on that first word. If you assume every word is equally possible (it isn't they're manually chosen) there would be an optimal starting word. I'm vaguely tempted to take the dictionary and figure out an optimal strategy that 1) guarantees success and 2) minimizes the number of guesses. But I've since moved on from that because I found I would be forced to reuse vowels in words 3 or 4. I used to start with ADIEU because it contains 4 vowels and the most common ones at that. but if we *are* going to use maths, then the information entropy approach is simply not the one most suited to this specific game (because the dictionary is fully known). Of course, one can legitimately argue that using maths takes the fun out of the game. It is unfortunate that 3Blue1Brown's excellent video has been so often misquoted as providing "optimal" guesses for Wordle. However, it is unknown whether it is possible within 5+1 guesses, which would make Wordle 100% solvable even with such a constrained approach! Interestingly, it can be done in 6+1 guesses (COMBO FATTY GRRRL SPUDS VENGE WHILK, then the possibilities are always narrowed down to a singleton). It is one of the few remaining open questions about Wordle. Using the "same words every time" (i.e., a fixed set of initial guesses) has been studied before.
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