Wordle 228 4/6

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Wordle 228 4/6

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hm, there are still 1874/2135 possible words fitting our two grids

Wordle 228 4/6*

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1751 with sorawee’s, but I’m not using the fact that’s he’s playing in hard mode, which is important information

@sorawee Btw, I find it impressive that you play exclusively in hard mode, have you lost a game yet?

There’s a day that I played and couldn’t think of a word that will fit the constraint, so I took a break and then forgot it.

I’m not even sure that counts as failure :smile:

Oh, with a 4 additional random tweets, the list is down to 19!

Took me 26 tweets to bring it down to 14… weird

…down to 9 with 45 tweets and 55 unique clues

Maybe some of the guesses are the same in your 26 samples? People think alike.

Finally \o/ After 86 tweets (from 4 to 6 guesses) and 75 distinct clues, it could reduce the list to a single element (which is indeed the solution) spoiler in thread

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These clues are enough to uniquely guess today’s word :smile:

yeah, the number of unique clues was growing slowly compared to the number of tweets I was adding

Who else hadn’t realized that Bogdan’s profile picture was a λ? :sweat_smile:

> Spoiler in thread yeah, I got thoroughly spoiled by this.

That is interesting. I’m curious to see where it goes. Currently, Googling for “high order virtual machine” gives 4 total results :-o

The next question is what is the minimum set of such clues that allows to uniquely identify the target word. I’d be surprised if that were not NP-hard.

Hm, it may be even worse than NP-hard, because verifying that it’s the smallest set is not even straightforward (i.e. just removing clues one by one is not enough to check minimality)

Free wordle-like games! https://twitter.com/jobrodie/status/1488287955886264320?s=21\|https://twitter.com/jobrodie/status/1488287955886264320?s=21

Would anyone be interested in a solver completion based around one? (Chosen not to have intellectual property issues)

I had my solver play <https://www.devangthakkar.com/wordle_archive/?8|an old Wordle> from an archive I found on Stephen’s link above. I think the programs choices are the least human-like I’ve seen from it thus far.

cares manly lawin naval <- correct

(hard mode)

This is a good one “adversarial wordle” https://qntm.org/files/absurdle/absurdle.html\|Absurdle

Absurdle 10/∞

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The FAQ says the best possible is 4 attempts.

Absurdle 8/∞

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Absurdle 7/∞

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Absurdle 7/∞

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I did it a couple times with my program. 7 guesses for both, and the same answer - probably because my solver is doing something similar to Absurdle statistically.

Laurent must have a good first guess - since he can force a letter already on the second guess.

Absurdle 6/∞

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Absurdle 6/∞

:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: :white_large_square::large_green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::large_green_square: :white_large_square::large_green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::large_green_square: :white_large_square::large_green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::large_green_square: :white_large_square::large_green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::large_green_square: :large_green_square::large_green_square::large_green_square::large_green_square::large_green_square: I think hard mode is hard for Absurdle :)

With a little backtracking though

Easy mode would gain info much more quickly I think. I’m still considering doing an easy mode solver.

Absurdle 5/∞

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Absurdle 5/∞

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<https://www.poirrier.ca/notes/wordle-optimal/|Wordle-solving state of the art: all optimality results so far> :)

~My best average so far is 3.775 guesses per word. Still some way to go, but at the same time it’s a greedy solver, so there’s still room for improvement.~ Oh wait, no, it’s actually 3.48! Rank 35 on the https://freshman.dev/wordle/#/leaderboard\|leaderboard (if words from the allowed list can be used, otherwise it’s 3.52)