What’s your optimal 5-letter starting word? Mine is HOUSE. It has 3 vowels (including E which is the most frequent in the English language) and S which helps test for plurals.
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Wordle Is a Love Story
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#62- Fun - Simple - One puzzle a day, and everyone plays the same one so you can share and compare scores - No account creation, logins, ads, subscriptions, data mining All the right ingredients for going viral. I just hope the last point stays unchanged.
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.
This sounds like the writing prompt for a Onion.com article that begins with "local man".
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#63I wish I could play a few more games at once and not be metered 1 per day.
Interestingly, according to the article, it was the decision to limit it that led to its popularity.
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#64I tried this game the last couple of days and I don't get the appeal. There is some skill involved, but there is also a huge amount of luck. For example yesterday I had "ti_er". I guessed "timer" but the actual word was "tiger". That left me with a score of 5 instead of 4. Does that say anything about my skill level as a player? Honestly, this seems to mostly be a marketing success story about the sharing score funct…
It's only "luck" if you actually know all the words - most people do passively, but can they find the right one actively? That's part of the 'skill'. The other part is constructing a mental graph that allows you to find your way to the correct word within 6 steps, regardless of the word. An interesting question is whether there is actually any luck involved and how much. i.e. What is the optimal graph reducing the luck factor to a minimum, and is there a perfect one, if you know all words in the game?
People who say "it's just luck" either don't know, or don't care - but it's neither a correct, nor a clever position.
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#65I’ve been able to play a handful of the past words with internet archive for anyone interested
https://web.archive.org/web/20220105234455/https://www.power...
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#66What’s your optimal 5-letter starting word? Mine is HOUSE. It has 3 vowels (including E which is the most frequent in the English language) and S which helps test for plurals.
In the 1960's my dad programmed Jotto (a simpler five letter secret word game) on Kodak's computers. Entropy became the first interesting mathematical concept that I learned.
Log base 2 of the remaining words is a measure of how many yes/no questions it would take to identify the word. An entropy strategy looks for a clue word that minimizes the expected value of this measure. One optimizes sum p log p over the pile sizes.
Pure mathematicians prefer certain concepts with a religious fervor. Often this has been informed by a reasonable number of problems where a concept has been proven optimal. The best applied mathematicians understand pure math but prefer practical work. To a pure mathematician, the rest are just guessing.
Here, one needs a clearly stated objective function for measuring success. Entropy strategies are often optimal for simple objective functions.
A critical detail for this game: The secret words come from a shorter list than the valid guess words. One wants a guess word that best partitions the shorter list of secret word candidates, not the full list of valid guess words.
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#67I wish I could play a few more games at once and not be metered 1 per day.
https://www.fiveletters.xyz/
Allows for continuous play
Repo here https://github.com/sigvef/fiveletters.xyz (not mine)
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#68I’ve been able to play a handful of the past words with internet archive for anyone interested https://web.archive.org/web/20220105234455/https://www.power...
I can only see the top 2 rows of the keyboard. Adjusting the window size doesn't fix it.
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#69What’s your optimal 5-letter starting word? Mine is HOUSE. It has 3 vowels (including E which is the most frequent in the English language) and S which helps test for plurals.
STEAR - not technically a word, but it is accepted, and hits the most common vowels and consonants.
I've been using TEARS by same logic.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
It depends on your word list, are you using the same word list as wordle?
I do not. According to the original article, Wordle uses[1] 2,500 common words out of the 12,000 5-letter words in the english language[2]. I use the 5 letter words in the collins scrabble dictionary (which is about 12,000 words). The assumption you need to make for my analysis to be correct is that the letter patterns in the 2,500 possible answers is statistically similar to the distribution of letter patterns in th…
The word list is in Wordle code, so you can just grab that.