Post #1957343
2026-04-23 20:34 UTC
Currently it's just repeating a two-phase strategy:
Given the set of valid 5-letter guesses, choose one _at random_ (without replacement).
Given the sequence of colors that the game produces in result, build a set of constraints and pare down the valid guess set.
Repeat.
So, none of the strategies you see in an advance human player, at the moment.
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@cliffle@hachyderm.io 2026-04-23 20:38
One of the fun things about Wordle: it's computationally practical to evaluate all possible games. So without being particularly clever, I can answer questions like, how many potential options are left (median) after guessing the word SLATE as an opening move on all potential puzzles (it's 250 of 10657). Or, which legal opening move leaves the smallest (median) number of options remaining. This leads you to SOARE, a word that is often suggested as optimal by AI boosters -- so I think I found their optimization metric. But the choice of metric is important, as the advanced human players I've checked with do not consider SOARE to be the optimal opening in practice.