See also qntm's Absurdle, which similarly tries to be a maximally difficult by taking your guess at each stage and using it to prune the list of possible answer

See also qntm's Absurdle, which similarly tries to be a maximally difficult by taking your guess at each stage and using it to prune the list of possible answers, picking the largest set consistent with your guesses so far each time. Play: https://qntm.org/files/wordle/index.html https://qntm.org/files/wordle/index.html The author also wrote up this nice article describing in detail how the algorithm works: https://qntm.org/wordle https://qntm.org/wordle Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29862597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29862597