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> It still leaks information. From what I posted above alone, you can infer that the last letter is probably a relatively common one. I don't get what you mean
by fsckboy 5y ago
> It still leaks information. From what I posted above alone, you can infer that the last letter is probably a relatively common one.
I don't get what you mean about leaking information, but you can infer that all letters are "probably" relatively common ones, that's a property of relatively common, higher probability
- Retr0id 5y agoLet's call the last letter L4. Given no prior infomation, the probability of L4 == X, for each value of X in the alphabet, gives you a histogram - which is always the same, and can be calculated by looking at the game's dictionary wordlist. If I give you the new information "I guessed L4 on my first guess", you can use this to update the histogram. The more-probable entries in the histogram are now even more probable, and the less-probable entries less probable. For the specific numbers, have a look at Bayesian Inference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference
- fsckboy 5y agooh, you meant the position contains a popular letter because that brick shade is green! I thought it was yellow