Solving Wordle using information theory

I always start with negus

Best starter word is adieu

Another good opening would be "audio," as it uses 4 out of 5 vowels in a single word.

You appear to have decided at some point how much you are going to do what conventional players would call cheating. Personally I think that line in the sand is arbitrarily placed by the player somewhere in the region of what they know how to do. The way of bypassing most difficulties is merely to determine how the program chooses today's word. I have done that and it's also the least interesting solution even though it is the most optimal in terms of number of guesses: I can always get the answer on my first try until they change the formula. The more interesting solutions impose limits on what you are permitted to learn about the system. For me knowing both dictionaries is the "optimal" solution for generating the most valuable computational method. This method also means you don't need to think up some heuristic about favouring common words because you already know all possible solutions from the program code.

4 year ago is crazy

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this is just goonbait

I always start with ‘Louis,’ and if none of those are correct, I follow with the word ‘ready

18:40 These are the most common 5 lettered words in the english lagnguage.
THESE is the 8th most common.
1st is WHICH after which there is THEIR and THERE. FIRST itself is not 1st but 9th... where those after FIRST are AFTER WHERE and THOSE being just a bit less common


WHO THE HELL SCRIPTED THIS??

I made a version on this for some game i was playing that gave me some game money for doing wordle faster
I manually kept playing games until i git all the 100 words in its word list
They didnt have a check for if it was a real word so i got it down to about 54% for a two guess solve :)

my opening is choux, pinky, slate

5:35 i i play a game of wordle and get wigga

3:25 probably not because wordle doesn't have any plural words so there is probably less words that end with an s than start with an s

Grant Sanderson, I have an interesting question that is related to this video: so have you do a similar procedure but with all (or at the least ones that (have previously) existed since early 2000s) 6-letter words, 7-letter words and so on, a fairly similar algorithm for choosing its choice(fo❤r what its thinking)? Have you thought about it? I just thought about earlier this month/week. That would be an interesting (homework) problem. Lucas ❤ 3b1b. Always keeps us and yourself curious about math(and some other fun subjects)! :) 🔵🔵🔵🟤

6:02 omg, "Can I get a wahoo?"

just do the words: Waltz, Gymps, Vibex, Fjord and Chunk. If you do that all letters have been used except for q and almost all the time "Q" is not used. :))))

my go to is 5 different words and i stop after i get all the letters, glent, brick, jumpy, vozhd, waqfs.

today's wordle was WEAVE. I got it in 4 tries :/

7.92 is not the maximum because four greens and one yellow is impossible

5:13 BOTTOM OF THE 7TH COLUMN PLANET ZYGON

5:37 wigga

2:02 why isn't shady an option?

i always open with audio. some say its cheating but i say its efficient

i still start with horse, just bc it would be funny the day i get it in 1 try its horse

My favorite starter is ALIEN, 3 vowels, has I and E

8:05 the answer to this 6 letter wordle is "boring". it's the only word that fits. does this mean 3b1b thinks information theory's basics are boring?

23:55, welp........

I paused the video randomly and saw the word mungo, and i did this stupid run
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Mungo bbyby
Xoana bybyb
Snoep gygbb
Sworn ggggg

Sure why not

i love the "whos on first" style thing 18:38

There is something important I think is missing in the explanation. Why is (1/2)^I = p at 9:15 . I understand that 1 bit of information reduces the number of possibilities to 1/2 of it. But how does probability come into the picture here?

I lwk just start with
"Gnome"
"Darts"
and "Flick"