fun game – third try was correct
but I guess the fun’ll wear off soon
which is good because I don’t need another time sink ;)
but there’s an interesting question:
how exactly to prune depending on the feedback?
at first, we don’t want to repeat any letters
we already used in previous guesses
except if we already know all the letters
but in case we’re hunting for many good scores
and don’t mind ruining the average, we would
soon want to try what might be near-misses.
for example, I first got 2 yellow letters,
tried with empty intersection, got another
2 yellow letters, and then only this one
word came to my mind passing all the tests
so I tried it, and successfully so.
(early change to greedy strategy)
how do strategies change if all we care about
is the average? or if we want to give the
correct one at the 5th step exactly?
What if exactly one letter in each guess gets
a wrong feedback color? any 4/1 combination
would be more likely to have come from a 5/0
correct feedback than 3/2. Or would it?
Maybe that holds for the first guess.
But then how many could still start out 5/0
in subsequent guesses?
worlds to explore …
Am 24.01.22 um 15:59 schrieb Ian Clark:
Wordle strikes me as a variation of Mastermind / Cows & Bulls / Moo, using
alpha instead of digits, or colors.
See https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/moo -by Roger Hui, which plays
moo as the guesser. There's a useful list of links at the end.
I can't see an alternative to the brute force approach: start with a
(published) list of English words and repeatedly prune it using the
feedback.
Having implemented a Mastermind guesser ca. 1989 (and lost the APL code) I
recall that the list shortens rapidly, but only if you make maximum use of
the feedback info.
On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 at 14:09, bill lam <bbill....@gmail.com> wrote:
The game wordle in the website.
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
Any idea of how to generate a list of candidates words after new
information from each row?
Eg,
T H I E F # all wrong
R A D O N # O and N are there but misplaced
what is the list of words for the 3rd row?
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