January 31, 2022

Wordle Solvers

Following on from a previous post, I wanted to explore what effect various kinds of strategies for solving Wordle have on how quickly you solve it. So I implemented Wordle in python, and then spent a while trying to find a good word list to use as a basis. Now, I know that you can inspect the Wordle page itself and find the list of words it uses for validating real words and the list of wordle answers, but I don’t want to use that list, so I made my own. Read more

January 5, 2022

Wordle Letter Counts

In response to some discussion on twitter, I dug into how common different letters are at different positions in a word. Since the discussion was prompted by the popular word game Wordle the focus was on five letter words. My approach was to download a word list from the first google hit for word list download, and then throw python’s Counter module at it. from collections import Counter # Download a wordlist such as the one available here: # https://github. Read more

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