What are the "⬛ squares taking social media by storm"?
Guess the daily Wordle in one try using the tweet distribution
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#22What are the "⬛ squares taking social media by storm"?
It's the text you copy/paste to share your Wordle results on social media.
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#24What are the "⬛ squares taking social media by storm"?
Huh, I thought HN stripped out emojis from posts. Has that changed, or is there a limited subset that are available?
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#27My favourite part of this is accounting for some fake grids. Kudos! I have been so curious lately as to whether this was possible. EDIT: The next question is which (if any) of these signals can be removed and still get it in 1 guess. Or if there are any other signals. Or how many tweets are needed (is 50 enough? 10? or 1000? 10k?)
As the article explains, a grid containing, say, GGYGG, is fake. Finding more complex fakery is more difficult.
(Edit: drat, HN filters out the Unicode colored-block characters).
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh, I thought HN stripped out emojis from posts. Has that changed, or is there a limited subset that are available?
Maybe because ■ is part if ASCII? Edit: ⬛⬜ work, the colored ones don't.
⬛ and ■ are different characters. But it looks like HN still strips most emoji.
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#29My metagame is guessing my friend's guesses.
Glad to hear I am not the only one squandering my time doing this :) Might be a fun program to write. I find it’s often hard to guess more than the line prior to the win.
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#30My favourite part of this is accounting for some fake grids. Kudos! I have been so curious lately as to whether this was possible. EDIT: The next question is which (if any) of these signals can be removed and still get it in 1 guess. Or if there are any other signals. Or how many tweets are needed (is 50 enough? 10? or 1000? 10k?)
This uses ~2-3k tweets per day for most days, which seems to be more than enough. According to https://twitter.com/WordleStats/status/1486021209015963649 there's about 250k daily tweets per Wordle right now, so this is about a 1% sample coming from whatever the Twitter search API returned when I ran that query.
The simulated distributions it's comparing to are based on 1000 runs per 5-letter word.
Anecdotally, 250 was enough to get it working for those simulated distributions, 100 and below it became increasingly noisier. A higher N would be nice, but I didn't spend more time optimizing the performance for the simulation code beyond what was needed to get this working.