Wordle

[Still's Carenae]

https://freshman.dev/wordle/#/leaderboard

I spent a diverting half an hour or so looking into how people are coding wordle bots. Lots have got down to an average of 3.41, I haven't been able to find/understand whether someone has actually proved that this is the optimal strategy but I would think its close.

I spent another 10 minutes or so going through tuffers last 100 scores posted on here. Amazingly, despite occasionally using what us mere mortals would consider a slightly less than optimal strategy of using starting words with repeated letters he has managed an average of 3.23.

My stats from the start are 4.15. I don't have a routine of how or when I do them. Just enjoy messing around with different words.

[gshaw]

Wordle 400 4/6

[Long slender neck]

Wordle 400 3/6

[tuffers#1]

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[StillSpike]

Wordle 401 4/6

[gshaw]

Wordle 401 3/6

[StillSpike]

Wordle 402 4/6






Annoyed with myself. Should have been a 3er

[Long slender neck]

Wordle 402 6/6

[tuffers#1]

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[BoniO]

Wordle 402 3/6

[tuffers#1]

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[Mick McQuaid]

Your 4 is way more suspicious than BoniO's 3 there actually tuffers. BoniO excluded 9 letters before getting a result, you excluded 3.

[BoniO]

Your 4 is way more suspicious than BoniO's 3 there actually tuffers. BoniO excluded 9 letters before getting a result, you excluded 3.

And, to be fair, I just guessed luckily!

[gshaw]

Wordle 402 4/6

[StillSpike]

Wordle 403 5/6

[Mick McQuaid]

I'll make this my last bit of maths on the subject.

The best bots solve in 3 goes or less 56% of the time. Up until there were a few suggestions that tuffers was posting suspiciously good results he was running at 88% of games solved in 3 tries or less, after which his results have normalised a little for some reason.

Putting the results of the first 63 posts into a binomial probability calculator (I had to try 3 before I found one which calculates to enough decimal places) gives a probability of this happening, when using a mathematically perfect strategy, of 0.00000001649151% or about 10 times less likely than winning the lottery.

By the way, I cheated today after 4 goes by using a crossword solver after staring at it for about 5 minutes and not being able to think of any word.

[BoniO]

Wordle 403 3/6

[tuffers#1]

Your 4 is way more suspicious than BoniO's 3 there actually tuffers. BoniO excluded 9 letters before getting a result, you excluded 3.

B*ll*cks !!

[tuffers#1]

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[Max Fowler]

Up until there were a few suggestions that tuffers was posting suspiciously good results he was running at 88% of games solved in 3 tries or less, after which his results have normalised a little for some reason.

[StillSpike]

Is it better to exclude letters or to find them? My first word seems quite good at excluding all of F L A S K quite often.

[tuffers#1]

I'll make this my last bit of maths on the subject.

The best bots solve in 3 goes or less 56% of the time. Up until there were a few suggestions that tuffers was posting suspiciously good results he was running at 88% of games solved in 3 tries or less, after which his results have normalised a little for some reason.

Putting the results of the first 63 posts into a binomial probability calculator (I had to try 3 before I found one which calculates to enough decimal places) gives a probability of this happening, when using a mathematically perfect strategy, of 0.00000001649151% or about 10 times less likely than winning the lottery.

By the way, I cheated today after 4 goes by using a crossword solver after staring at it for about 5 minutes and not being able to think of any word.

Why use maths & bots ?

Use adverts & expand


Its what us kleva folk do ,

[gshaw]

Wordle 403 5/6

[Long slender neck]

Wordle 403 6/6

[Long slender neck]

I'll make this my last bit of maths on the subject.

The best bots solve in 3 goes or less 56% of the time. Up until there were a few suggestions that tuffers was posting suspiciously good results he was running at 88% of games solved in 3 tries or less, after which his results have normalised a little for some reason.

Putting the results of the first 63 posts into a binomial probability calculator (I had to try 3 before I found one which calculates to enough decimal places) gives a probability of this happening, when using a mathematically perfect strategy, of 0.00000001649151% or about 10 times less likely than winning the lottery.

By the way, I cheated today after 4 goes by using a crossword solver after staring at it for about 5 minutes and not being able to think of any word.

Excellent work.