Winning Wordle
> (2) What is a winning strategy I can memorize?> Q: What simple strategy guarantees a win within 6 guesses?I've seen a lot of analyses of Wordle that pose this question, and I feel like these are not people who play Wordle (not unlikely - these are seemingly people more interested in analysing the game from a statistical standpoint than simply playing directly).But while the answer to this question is interesting enough, it's not that interesting. People I've spoken to who play have zero interest in winning in 5 or 6 guesses - in fact most would consider a score of 6/6 a loss (or at least a relatively bad score), unless it was a particularly tricky word.> (1) If I win in two guesses, am I good or lucky?Q: What first guess maximizes the number of guaranteed wins on the second guess?Q: What first guess maximizes the number of expected wins on the second guess?> The probability of winning in two guesses is about 2%, so the answer is: mostly lucky.These - and the follow-ups I was hoping for for 3, 4 & 5 guesses respectively - are much more interesting questions.* Yes I can just clone this and edit to find these things out (& probably will later this week) but I'm just commenting on my confusion around why there's so much focus on the least interesting part of a problem.