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Love this article, OP, especially those interactive demos. One small suggestion: > A truth booth is where a male & female ... The use of "male" and "female" as nouns sounds very unnatural. "A man and a woman" would be a little less jarring, imo.
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One really should be careful making statements like these on the Internet. It's a stronger signal than people saying "male" and "female".
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I've always found this to be such a pedantic hill to die on. I don't think the author is an incel and it's pretty rude to throw out that kind of language for what's pretty clearly just a style choice.
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In addition to Mastermind, Wordle also falls into the same category. Optimal play to reduce the search space in both follow the same general pattern - the next check should satisfy all previous feedback, and included entries should be the most probable ones, both of those previously tested, and those not. If entries are equally probable, include the one which eliminates the largest number of remaining possibilities i…
> For wordle, «most probable» is mostly determined by letter frequency I don't think that's a justified assumption. I wouldn't be surprised if wordle puzzles intentionally don't follow common letter frequency to be more interesting to guess. That's certainly true for people casually playing hangman.
The faster you can discard all words containing «e» because of a negative match, the better.
If you want to be really optimal, you’ll use their list of possible words to calculate the actual positional frequencies and pick the highest closest match based on this - that’s what «mostly» was meant to imply, but the general principle of how to reduce the search space quickly is the same
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In addition to Mastermind, Wordle also falls into the same category. Optimal play to reduce the search space in both follow the same general pattern - the next check should satisfy all previous feedback, and included entries should be the most probable ones, both of those previously tested, and those not. If entries are equally probable, include the one which eliminates the largest number of remaining possibilities i…
> For wordle, «most probable» is mostly determined by letter frequency I don't think that's a justified assumption. I wouldn't be surprised if wordle puzzles intentionally don't follow common letter frequency to be more interesting to guess. That's certainly true for people casually playing hangman.
This was great, but it skipped over the most interesting bit - how you actually choose which matchups and truth booths. That is, an actual strategy that contestants could use that doesn't require a computer.
In addition to Mastermind, Wordle also falls into the same category. Optimal play to reduce the search space in both follow the same general pattern - the next check should satisfy all previous feedback, and included entries should be the most probable ones, both of those previously tested, and those not. If entries are equally probable, include the one which eliminates the largest number of remaining possibilities i…
> Optimal play to reduce the search space in both follow the same general pattern - the next check should satisfy all previous feedback, and included entries should be the most probable ones, both of those previously tested, and those not.
The "next check should satisfy all previous feedback" part is not exactly true. That's hard-mode wordle, but hard mode is provably slower to solve than non-hard-mode (https://www.poirrier.ca/notes/wordle-optimal/) where the next guess can be inconsistent with previous feedback.
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Giving them more credit than they probably deserve but: when you're solving "by hand" like they are in the show, keeping a known non-match couple together may actually be helpful for interpreting the results of a matchup ceremony because you'll know that that couple didn't contribute to the beams.
That's different, they do that also, but sometimes for the plot one couple intentionally mess those plans because the love is just too big.
This was great, but it skipped over the most interesting bit - how you actually choose which matchups and truth booths. That is, an actual strategy that contestants could use that doesn't require a computer.
In addition to Mastermind, Wordle also falls into the same category. Optimal play to reduce the search space in both follow the same general pattern - the next check should satisfy all previous feedback, and included entries should be the most probable ones, both of those previously tested, and those not. If entries are equally probable, include the one which eliminates the largest number of remaining possibilities i…
Thank you! I might look into this once I break my current streak of the localised wordle clone I'm playing now.
I always try to use as many different bits for the first few rounds...
But then again, maybe I'm not so good at these kinds of games as I think.
Really impressive imo. I don't remember the last time I was this engaged reading an article on HN.
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I hear this commonly about using the words "male" and "female." I think it's unfair. For one thing, the military uses them frequently, and so would veterans. Another reason is that their meanings are age-agnostic which helps to emphasize the intent of the speaker--to differentiate on sex alone, not sex plus age.
"It's used in the military" supports the point the GP is making, that it sounds unnatural in a common context.
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In addition to Mastermind, Wordle also falls into the same category. Optimal play to reduce the search space in both follow the same general pattern - the next check should satisfy all previous feedback, and included entries should be the most probable ones, both of those previously tested, and those not. If entries are equally probable, include the one which eliminates the largest number of remaining possibilities i…
> For wordle, «most probable» is mostly determined by letter frequency I don't think that's a justified assumption. I wouldn't be surprised if wordle puzzles intentionally don't follow common letter frequency to be more interesting to guess. That's certainly true for people casually playing hangman.