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RIP CHOCOLATE BALK BRED Using all letters giving a score of 227/380 There should be some hints on how to increase my score? Is this based on the word rarity?
by modernpink 5y ago
RIP CHOCOLATE BALK BRED
Using all letters giving a score of 227/380
There should be some hints on how to increase my score? Is this based on the word rarity?
- danieltait 5y agoThanks for playing! Right now the score is calculated by letter value multiplied by word length so longer words score more points. Open to feedback on this as wasn't sure best scoring.
- modernpink 5y agoI think a mix of word length and rarity might be the way to go. Information entropy would be a helpful approach here (look up the 3Brown1Blue video on Wordle). Also, CHOCOLATIER comes up as an invalid word.
- danieltait 5y agoThanks! Will look into this. And sorry chocolatier should definitely be accepted! Great word
- mal-2 5y agoI disagree on the rarity piece, I think it will be more frustrating if you can't predict how to improve your score. Length is straightforward because you know your strategy should always be to make the fewest longest words.
- thex10 5y agoCan you have this on the screen while solving? I think this might have been mentioned at the start but it goes away once I start trying words.
- 0xdada 5y agoI got 261 points. Spoiler: QkFCRUwgUEFETE9DSyBSSEVUT1JJQw== Edit: 272 / QkxPQgpQQUNLRUQKUkhFVE9SSUNBTA==
- random_coder 5y agoEach letter is given a weight and it's multiplied by the length of the word it's part of to get its effective weight. Sum it up for all letters and you get the final score. Here, it seems like two 10 letter words can be formed using the given 20. Hint - blackboard is one such word.
- danieltait 5y agoCorrect!