Very cool!
One minor improvement here; if the user has toggled colorblind mode on, then their tweeted result will also have altered color blocks. Orange for right letter right place, and blue for right letter wrong place.
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#12This is super smart. I wonder how many tweets this approach needs each day to converge to the correct answer? It would be interesting to see some plots vs. num tweets
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#13This is brilliant and something I had the intuition was possible, just couldn't put it all together myself. What was missing, I think, in my thought process was just taking into account the general common occurrence of words in English in general. Plus how to deal with static.
Just so cool someone put this together, major props.
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#14SPOILER ALERT: shows today's answer!
Sorry about that! Just updated so today's guess is hidden by default (and you can click-to-unveil)
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#15Cool but don't read all the way if you haven't done today's Wordle!
Sorry about that! Just updated so today's guess is hidden by default (and you can click-to-unveil)
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#16I wonder what percentage of these Twitter posts are fake (“OMG so lucky LOL”).
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#17This is a really cool approach, definitely did not think of trying this! If you'd prefer to play without the crowdsourced data, I spent a couple hours on the following dictionary search algo yesterday which can typically solve puzzles in 3-4 guesses: https://github.com/rgkimball/wordlebot
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#18This is the HN I’m here for. Brilliant.
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#19If you know someone always starts with SLATE it makes it easier...
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