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> right letter wrong place is far less useful than right letter right place It's not that easy. If you're guessing the most common position for a letter, you
by mortehu 5y ago
> right letter wrong place is far less useful than right letter right place
It's not that easy. If you're guessing the most common position for a letter, you may not be gaining the maximum amount of information.
The heuristics approach you're using won't beat brute force evaluation of all possible guesses for all possible solutions (which is only a few million combinations).
- capitainenemo 5y agoWell, part of the goal is also to finish in less than 6 guesses, so surely an optimal starting pattern is best. And since you can't do better than each letter being unique, you might as well ensure those unique letters are both common and ideally positioned. From that point on, the remaining words I guess you could brute force, or combine statistical with statistical to cover best letters first. I'm sure brute forcing will probably guarantee a win almost always, but will it be, for example a 3 or 4 word win which is pretty easy to do for a human.