Wordle-solving state of the art: all optimality results so far
Everyone is missing the core game mechanic - the ability to share a "spoiler free" report of your game on social media. For example, my (human operated) game from today:Wordle 222 3/6⬛⬛⬛⬛⬜⬛⬜⬛⬜⬛⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜However, this isn't truly spoiler free. It still leaks information. From what I posted above alone, you can infer that the last letter is probably a relatively common one.With the help of Twitter's APIs (or in my case, a janky screen-scraping script), you can trivially gather thousands of these emojified game logs. I do not consider this cheating, because sharing these is part of the game.You can use these, in aggregate, to perform frequency analysis. I haven't shared my code yet because I'm still working on it, but as an example, here's the output from my script for day 216:https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1484669351261347842Out of all the possible words, it ranked the correct solution at rank 5 - and that's before providing a single input to the game.Edit: Replaced green blocks with "⬜" because HN doesn't like them.