Published On Feb 13, 2022
Following up on the Worlde-solver ( • Solving Wordle using information theory ), discussing a minor bug and more details about how the best first word was chosen.
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Contents:
0:00 - The Bug
3:31 - How the best first guess is chosen
8:54 - Does this ruin the game?
Nice post by Jonathan Olson on optimal wordle algorithms:
https://jonathanolson.net/experiments...
More on optimal strategies:
http://sonorouschocolate.com/notes/in...
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https://github.com/3b1b/videos/tree/m...
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