Best Wordle guessing strategy
I modeled my Wordle solver[1] after Donald Knuth&#x27;s Mastermind strategy[2].<p>An optimal guess is found by looking at the list of possible solutions and for each of those possible solutions checking how much each possible guess would narrow down the list of possible solutions.<p>Once you have a list of all possible guesses and how much each of those possible guesses would narrow down the total number of possible solutions for each possible solution, sort them by the maximum number of total remaining guesses.<p>The optimal first guesses from my solver are ARISE, RAISE, AESIR, REAIS, or SERAI because each will narrow down the possible word list to <i>at minimum</i> 168 remaining words.<p>Each guess after that uses the same algorithm with the list of possible guesses filtered with the information you learned in previous guesses.<p>edit: formatting<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wordlesolver.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wordlesolver.com</a> source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;christiangenco&#x2F;wordlesolver" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;christiangenco&#x2F;wordlesolver</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;math.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;1192961&#x2F;knuths-mastermind-algorithm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;math.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;1192961&#x2F;knuths-mast...</a>