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Oddly enough, when you play hangman, you should use this sequence instead: ESIARN TOLCDU In hangman, you are guessing words, not text. The high frequency of
by alejohausner 7y ago
Oddly enough, when you play hangman, you should use this sequence instead:
ESIARN TOLCDU
In hangman, you are guessing words, not text. The high frequency of the trigram THE makes T and H more probable in a text corpus. But if every word is equiprobable as in a dictionary list of words, you get the above sequence.
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- bloak 7y agoSomeone should do a proper game-theoretical analysis of hangman: you're playing hangman with DEATH, who has chosen an n-letter word according to an optimised strategy to minimise your chances of survival, assuming that you too will be following an optimal strategy. So a word containing very few common letters will probably be chosen with a higher probability that one that contains lots of common letters, so a frequency analysis of a dictionary won't directly help you.