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I thought this was old news? I remember people making videos about using information theory to solve Wordle back when it was particularly hyped. (After writing
by jezzamon 3mo ago
I thought this was old news? I remember people making videos about using information theory to solve Wordle back when it was particularly hyped. (After writing this I checked, there's even a 3 blue 1 brown video on this)
My favourite along those lines was solving wordle in 1 guess using the distribution of coloured squares on social media https://www.kaggle.com/code/benhamner/wordle-1-6 https://www.kaggle.com/code/benhamner/wordle-1-6
- GL26 3mo agoYes 3blue1brown made a series of videos which explains it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRed0Xmc2Wg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRed0Xmc2Wg .
- seirl 3mo agoAlso same exact name as the paper?
- csande17 3mo agoIt's not clear how the strategy in the article differs from the one used by Wordle Bot, the analysis/feedback system that Wordle links to on the victory screen at the end of the game: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/upshot/wordle-bot.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/upshot/wordle-bot.h... The first page of the published paper ( https://orb.binghamton.edu/nejcs/vol8/iss1/6/ https://orb.binghamton.edu/nejcs/vol8/iss1/6/ ) also claims that the game was developed by "Josh Wordle", so maybe it just isn't the highest-quality scholarship in the world.
- wasabi991011 3mo ago> also claims that the game was developed by "Josh Wordle", To be fair, that is a 1 letter typo; the developer is in fact "Josh Wardle".
- madcaptenor 3mo agoI had wondered if getting wordle in 1 based on social media data was possible! Now I know.