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Here's a variant question about Wordle strategy that's AFAIK unsolved, which I'm currently working on (my program is too slow). Namely: yes, any optimal strateg
by svat 5y ago
Here's a variant question about Wordle strategy that's AFAIK unsolved, which I'm currently working on (my program is too slow). Namely: yes, any optimal strategy will involve adapting your second guess to the response to the first guess, but what if you'd like to play two blind guesses instead of one? (Many human players seem to do this in practice.) In that case, what would be the best two starting words (and decision tree thereon), and how much worse is it than the globally optimal strategy?
In other words: what's the cost of a second blind guess?
Maybe going even further: is it possible to still win the game with three blind guesses, or four? What is the smallest subset of "blind" guesses after which the possible solution set is "small" (say at most a word or a handful: less than some specified k).
- comex 5y agoAnother comment on this thread tried something similar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30094398 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30094398
- muyyatin2 5y agoI saw an analysis for a four-word blind combination, but I believe it didn't fully determine the word by the 5th guess: http://www.garytay.net/4-words-to-win-wordle-in-less-than-a-minute-every-day/ http://www.garytay.net/4-words-to-win-wordle-in-less-than-a-...
- pjsg 5y agoI play a fixed first word, and then one of 6 second words depending on the number of matches (any color) I get. I can remember these seven words and so it doesn't feel like cheating. Remembering words for all the 200 odd possible results of the first guess doesn't seem feasible, and referring to a cheat sheet seems to be, I guess, cheating. First guess: ARISE Second guess (from 0 - 5 matches): COULD CLOUT CLOUT PLANT PWNED EIGHT