[giyanani]

Jane street had a puzzle related to this, called eldrow [1], a few months ago.

The gist is you’re trying to find the worst sequence of (hard mode) guesses possible for any word in the wordle set.

Their site shows submissions of up to 16 words and claims 17 is impossible [2]. I’ve been trying to do the same, but have yet to cut the search space enough[3].

Ex: calculating the worst chain for jazzy (with a 1000 word subset of the full word list) took an m1 core 1 hour and resulted in the ten-word chain:

civic, buggy, woody, array, leaky, mammy, fanny, happy, tasty, jazzy

[1] https://www.janestreet.com/puzzles/eldrow-index/ [2] https://www.janestreet.com/puzzles/eldrow-solution/ [3] https://github.com/roshangiyanani/wordle/blob/main/wordle/el...