Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously
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Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously
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Re: Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously
#2> the list of 2315 valid secret words
> 2315 was the original number of Wordle secret words. After the New York Times acquired Wordle, it was revised down to only 2309 secret words.
The NYT puzzle is no longer beholden to any specific list for solutions. There's now a larger list (of 3200 words) that Wordlebot thinks are now likely to be solutions based on NYT word frequency data, but some recent solutions (like KEFIR and LORIS) have come from outside even this set. (The NYT did however add those words into the Wordlebot dictionary just before those puzzles went live.)
> 12972 possible 5-letter words
Likewise, the number of legally guessable words has been increased to 14855.
Re: Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously
#3I wonder if model synthesis (wave function collapse) would be more or less efficient.
Re: Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously
#4> the list of 2315 valid secret words > 2315 was the original number of Wordle secret words. After the New York Times acquired Wordle, it was revised down to only 2309 secret words. The NYT puzzle is no longer beholden to any specific list for solutions. There's now a larger list (of 3200 words) that Wordlebot thinks are now likely to be solutions based on NYT word frequency data, but some recent solutions (like KEFI…
Good catch! I didn't know about this, I'll update the footnote. Anecdotally everyone I know was very surprised by KEFIR the other day.
Re: Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously
#5I wonder if model synthesis (wave function collapse) would be more or less efficient. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_synthesis https://www.rserra.it/solving-hardest-sudoku/
I could see it being handy to estimate probability where each word is to better inform each guess. The tricky thing is I'm not sure if each run of wave function collapse (with randomness injected) would be an accurate sampling method for the real distribution of possible permutations. While doing this writeup I tried to find ways to analyze permutations with restriction, but it turns out most general methods are pretty intractable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_(mathematics)#Enumer...
Re: Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously
#6ChatGPT Agent is pretty good at playing Wordle. It's banned from the official version, but it'll play the knock-off ones just fine for you.
Re: Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously
#7Fun analysis! I run https://squareword.org, which has 5x5 letters featuring words both down and across. Guesses are applied to the horizontal words, but the vertical words can be used as support, a bit like in Sudoku.
I wonder how the analysis would work here - since the verticals form words as well I think you get a lot more information from each guess. Many players can now solve them consistently in 6 or 7 guesses.
Re: Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously
#8ChatGPT Agent is pretty good at playing Wordle. It's banned from the official version, but it'll play the knock-off ones just fine for you.
What's the point? You play these games to improve your own mind, or for your own enjoyment.
Re: Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously
#9> the list of 2315 valid secret words > 2315 was the original number of Wordle secret words. After the New York Times acquired Wordle, it was revised down to only 2309 secret words. The NYT puzzle is no longer beholden to any specific list for solutions. There's now a larger list (of 3200 words) that Wordlebot thinks are now likely to be solutions based on NYT word frequency data, but some recent solutions (like KEFI…
Which 6 words did NYT remove?
Re: Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously
#10> the list of 2315 valid secret words > 2315 was the original number of Wordle secret words. After the New York Times acquired Wordle, it was revised down to only 2309 secret words. The NYT puzzle is no longer beholden to any specific list for solutions. There's now a larger list (of 3200 words) that Wordlebot thinks are now likely to be solutions based on NYT word frequency data, but some recent solutions (like KEFI…
Which 6 words did NYT remove?
You can check the diff on the file wordlist_hidden here: https://github.com/alex1770/wordle/commit/85c4a7e6