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Wordle Is a Love Story

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Post by sbarre »

noxvilleza wrote: post #117
sbarre wrote: post #101

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Yes that's what I meant, is it valid in Wordle specifically.

That's what I was clarifying with 'Yes, it's in the list of guessable words - however it's not a valid answer word'. They have two lists of words: one is a list of possible answers, and another is a list of extra (valid) words which can be guessed (in addition to the words in the answer list). Sometimes it might be better to use a non-answer word as a guess: the best case gets worse (since you cannot win immediately)…

Ah I understand, thank you for clarifying!

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Post by kevinmgranger »

MBCook wrote: post #97
kevinmgranger wrote: post #30

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I hope the third point stays unchanged too. Too many services out there optimize for engagement, the expense being the encouragement of addictive behaviors.

Without ads or logins to sell information from, what’s the need to maximize engagement?

I've seen at least one FOSS project chasing engagement even with little to no financial incentive.

Notoriety and "number go up" is enough incentive sometimes.

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Post by ryzvonusef »

ryzvonusef wrote: post #115

naturally, clones have emerged here is one I found today, you can have multiple tries, and chose word length http://foldr.moe/hello-wordl/ wonder what other innovations occur before we round back into scrabble

https://octokatherine.github.io/word-master/

Another clone

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Post by serverholic »

kelseyfrog wrote: post #73
serverholic wrote: post #57

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I feel bad that he isn't making a dime from this. I think people should be able to get something in return for creating value for others.

Maybe they enjoy non-monetary rewards? One of the joys of the internet for me is experiencing peoples' self-less creations. More of that please!

I think the inventor of the internet shouldn't have to work another day in his life. In our society that means money.

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Post by fsckboy »

npinsker wrote: post #59
lalaithion wrote: post #21

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ARISE is good, but AROSE is better, and SOARE is the best: On average it eliminates all but 2264 out of ~12000 5 letter words. https://github.com/lalaithion/wordle

I wrote a brute-force minimax solver (minimizing expected guesses) which tracks with this information: SOARE 3.45 RAISE 3.46 ARISE 3.47 SERAI 3.52 Most 'reasonable' words seem within 0.1 or so of the optimal strategy. I think the second word is likely far more important than the first.

but soare isn't a word
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