Post #1957588

Turns out, an "endgame" heuristic I had put into place was misfiring and causing the solver to avoid potentially-impossible choices (when I had intended it to only avoid them in the last guess). Fixed: ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ slate → 271 left ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 point → 15 left ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 mouth → 5 left 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 caked → 1 left 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 dutch (CAKED in guess 4 is not a possible solution to the puzzle, which was shown in guess 1 to not contain A or E. But, it precisely disambiguates between the 5 possible remaining choices.) The overall solve rate is now 99.6%, missing only: baker bezel biddy boxer dolly ferry roger rower taffy