Given how close hard mode and easy mode are, and that even when calculating averages, 4, 5 & 6 are still considered "wins", I strongly suspect changing the para

Given how close hard mode and easy mode are, and that even when calculating averages, 4, 5 & 6 are still considered "wins", I strongly suspect changing the parameters could show hard mode to be "easier" for a "<4 or bust" goal. > I definitely have not used the "optimal strategy" every time, if I even knew that strategy in the first place. It's also worth noting that these models (presumably) assume an equal chance for every word in the provided dictionary, whereas - assuming the answers are "common" words - a human will likely be strongly biased toward the subset of possible answers and therefore can have much higher probabilities of success in practice than the theoretically-optimal strategies.