YouTuber 3Blue1Brown has used math and programming to conclude the ideal starting letter for the best chance of solving the daily Wordle.
A YouTuber has solved the riddle of the best first word to use in Wordle using math. Wordle is a widely popular word game that has recently seen a meteoric rise in prominence. Wordle’s popularity has spawned copycats including Moxle, a Magic: The Gathering themed rendition of the game.
Wordle’s ability to let players casually compete with their friends without being a head-on contest by tracking players’ scores and letting them share easily on social media where they can compare with others is part of the game’s popularity. The best way to get an edge in this friendly competition is to have a reliable starting word that gives you as much information as possible about what the word you are trying to find might be.
There are just shy of 13,000 words that Wordle will permit players to guess, but only about 2,500 that will ever actually be correct answers. The larger list contains many words that are at best extremely uncommon and at worst debatably not words at all. But the game wants to let players guess using most things that they might think of to fit the allocated space, which is fair enough.
Because of the nature of the words players are given to work with, Sanderson ultimately comes to the conclusion that he can't get his algorithm to reduce uncertainty below a threshold that would guarantee a correct answer before the third guess, even with optimal play. The closest his program gets, when using the shorter list of words as the program's only possible answers, is an average of 3.43 guesses per word.
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