Splitting off a separate thread, I wrote a program to play it
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wordle ai (river's version)
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wordlesolver.js
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I ran it over the entire Wordle solution corpus and:
1 | 1
2 | 146
3 | 959
4 | 936
5 | 222
6 | 40
>6 | 11
Mean: 3.6
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There are definitely improvements that could be made to the heuristic - eg I'm consistently scoring guesses weighting frequency of letters overall vs specific placement of letters but it's likely those weights should change depending on how much info you already have.
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I also am guessing optimal play on non-hard mode looks very different in some particular cases eg: when you guess SHA_E early and then have to iterate through through SHAPE SHAVE SHAKE SHAME SHARE SHADE
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isn’t better strat in this case to test as many of the letters P, V, K, etc. as possible?
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if you're not playing on hard mode yeah that's the proper play
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oh hard mode. hmm. mostly just seems annoying :/ you're incentivized to not get too many letters in the correct position early right?