> 2315 was the original number of Wordle secret words. After the New York Times acquired Wordle, it was revised down to only 2309 secret words.
The NYT puzzle is no longer beholden to any specific list for solutions. There's now a larger list (of 3200 words) that Wordlebot thinks are now likely to be solutions based on NYT word frequency data, but some recent solutions (like KEFIR and LORIS) have come from outside even this set. (The NYT did however add those words into the Wordlebot dictionary just before those puzzles went live.)
> 12972 possible 5-letter words
Likewise, the number of legally guessable words has been increased to 14855.
Fun analysis! I run https://squareword.org, which has 5x5 letters featuring words both down and across. Guesses are applied to the horizontal words, but the vertical words can be used as support, a bit like in Sudoku.
I wonder how the analysis would work here - since the verticals form words as well I think you get a lot more information from each guess. Many players can now solve them consistently in 6 or 7 guesses.
I could see it being handy to estimate probability where each word is to better inform each guess. The tricky thing is I'm not sure if each run of wave function collapse (with randomness injected) would be an accurate sampling method for the real distribution of possible permutations. While doing this writeup I tried to find ways to analyze permutations with restriction, but it turns out most general methods are pretty intractable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_(mathematics)#Enumer...
re|6 months ago
> 2315 was the original number of Wordle secret words. After the New York Times acquired Wordle, it was revised down to only 2309 secret words.
The NYT puzzle is no longer beholden to any specific list for solutions. There's now a larger list (of 3200 words) that Wordlebot thinks are now likely to be solutions based on NYT word frequency data, but some recent solutions (like KEFIR and LORIS) have come from outside even this set. (The NYT did however add those words into the Wordlebot dictionary just before those puzzles went live.)
> 12972 possible 5-letter words
Likewise, the number of legally guessable words has been increased to 14855.
chriskw|6 months ago
LPisGood|6 months ago
oliwary|6 months ago
I wonder how the analysis would work here - since the verticals form words as well I think you get a lot more information from each guess. Many players can now solve them consistently in 6 or 7 guesses.
cheschire|6 months ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_synthesis
https://www.rserra.it/solving-hardest-sudoku/
chriskw|6 months ago
qingcharles|6 months ago
ktallett|6 months ago