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Still love seeing Sam's stuff show up in my world! (Check iut Hatetris for another variant of the theme)

An excellent chance to use my Wordle solver based on optimizing information gain (ie guessing to minimize the number of words remaining in a worst case scenario)

Since this is essentially Wordle golf, my score was 5.

RAVED SPLIT BUNCO BOOBY BOOZY

His dictionary is missing some of the SGB wordlist ...



I scraped qntm's wordlist and fed it to my tool, I think it does the same thing as yours (minimize the worst case after a guess... the simple greedy algorithm).

The simple greedy algorithm choses NARES first, then DOILY, then TOUCH.

And then it is left with VOUCH, COUCH, POUCH, GOUCH, MOUCH. This solver algorithm is far from optimal. It is like a 1-ply chess solver.


qntm's novel "There Is No Antimemetics Division" is one of the best things I read last year. https://qntm.org/scp


Allow me to recommend all his writings on Everything2 which is where we first met nearly 20 years ago

https://everything2.com/node/superdoc/Everything+User+Search...




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