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An excellent chance to use my Wordle solver based on optimizing information gain (ie guessing to minimize the number of words remaining in a worst case scenario)
Since this is essentially Wordle golf, my score was 5.
RAVED SPLIT BUNCO BOOBY BOOZY
His dictionary is missing some of the SGB wordlist ...
C R A N K (0 green, 0 yellow)
M Y T H S (0 green, 0 yellow)
P L U M B (0 green, 1 yellow)
L Y R E S (0 green, 2 yellow)
O I L E D (2 green, 2 yellow)
F I E L D (4 green, 0 yellow)
W I E L D (5 green, 0 yellow)
I was literally playing with the idea of 'Adversarial Worlde', as I also called it, yesterday! Except it was multiplayer with one player being randomly assigned either the role of the guesser or the role of the defender. Then I learnt that the inventor of Wordle is named Josh Wardle, which could be a portmanteau of war and wordle.
I was literally playing with the idea of 'Adversarial Worlde', as I also called it, yesterday! Except it was multiplayer with one player being randomly assigned either the role of the guesser or the role of the defender. Then I learnt that the inventor of Wordle is named Josh Wardle, which could be a portmanteau of war and wordle.
Mastermind? :-)
Still love seeing Sam's stuff show up in my world! (Check iut Hatetris for another variant of the theme) An excellent chance to use my Wordle solver based on optimizing information gain (ie guessing to minimize the number of words remaining in a worst case scenario) Since this is essentially Wordle golf, my score was 5. RAVED SPLIT BUNCO BOOBY BOOZY His dictionary is missing some of the SGB wordlist ...
I was literally playing with the idea of 'Adversarial Worlde', as I also called it, yesterday! Except it was multiplayer with one player being randomly assigned either the role of the guesser or the role of the defender. Then I learnt that the inventor of Wordle is named Josh Wardle, which could be a portmanteau of war and wordle.
Mastermind? :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jotto
Apparently it was invented in 1955.
If wonder if anyone still has any kind of patent or other IP that would be relevant...
Still love seeing Sam's stuff show up in my world! (Check iut Hatetris for another variant of the theme) An excellent chance to use my Wordle solver based on optimizing information gain (ie guessing to minimize the number of words remaining in a worst case scenario) Since this is essentially Wordle golf, my score was 5. RAVED SPLIT BUNCO BOOBY BOOZY His dictionary is missing some of the SGB wordlist ...
The simple greedy algorithm choses NARES first, then DOILY, then TOUCH.
And then it is left with VOUCH, COUCH, POUCH, GOUCH, MOUCH. This solver algorithm is far from optimal. It is like a 1-ply chess solver.
I’ve taken six guesses four times and eight twice. It’s so very tempting to solve it, finding the quickest path, or at least a local maximum if brute-forcing the entire thing turns out to be too computationally prohibitive.
Soft-solved in that he doesn't necessarily have a proof this is the optimal solution, nor an enumeration of all optimal solutions, nor the optimal play from any game state - so there's still plenty to be explored here
I wonder if the author can improve the adversarial methodology to prevent a solution in 5. Eg, being left with BLACK/FLACK/SLACK as options is worse than having TRACE/BRACE/TRACK/CRACK, because the former requires 3 guesses to solve and the latter can be done in two. (Maybe this example is impossible because of TRACT, but I'm certain this effect exists).
So, it sounds like these two are in direct conflict. My solver is deterministic, and it looks like the adversarial is too, so they always play the same game:
S E R A I (0 green, 0 yellow, 429 words remain)
M O L D Y (1 green, 0 yellow, 35 words remain)
C E N T U (0 greem, 2 yellow, 2 words remain)
V O U C H (4 green, 0 yellow, 1 word remains)
P O U C H (5 green, 0 yellow, 0 words remain)