alt Hacker NewsI tried playing this as if its wordle & got it in 2 guesses. How do they do this ??? That's next to impossible in wordle & the probalities seem like they should be the same?
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tedmiston • today at 2:53 PM
By playing Wordle well, you are essentially eliminating as much unknown words as possible each turn, e.g., SALET alone takes 12974 words down to 34 here today.
But this is like Wordle hard mode with the forced letters, so the optimal strategy is probably to invert and eliminate as little words as possible each turn.
I got pretty far here using weird words, but PIZZA turned out to be a terrible first guess for Don't Wordle (eliminating ~75% of the words):
* 12974
PIZZA 3169
AQUAS 290
SAWED 17
MEASE 7
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f2474l • today at 2:11 PM
The game is cheating I guess
I think you really did just get lucky. It does pick a word up front at the start.