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[gmax137]

Wordle 1,058 2/6




I feel pretty good about getting this one in two. It took me quite a while.

 

[Orodruin]

Wordle 1,058 2/6




I feel pretty good about getting this one in two. It took me quite a while.

I had three words left after the first guess. Should have gone with my second instinct first.

 

[dwarde]

Wordle 1,058 6/6

 

[Orodruin]

Wordle 1 059 4/6

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 1,059 4/6

 

[Mister T]

Wordle 1,059 3/6

 

[jack action]

Wordle 1,059 4/6

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 1,059 3/6

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 1,059 4/6

 

[dwarde]

Wordle 1,059 5/6

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 1,060 4/6

 

[jack action]

Wordle 1,060 6/6

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 1,060 3/6

 

[gmax137]

Wordle 1,060 3/6

 

[Mister T]

Wordle 1,060 4/6






Bad luck!

 

[dwarde]

Wordle 1,060 2/6

 

[Orodruin]

Wordle 1 061 3/6





A resonable and informative guess based on the first two results … turns out to be the solution

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 1,061 4/6

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 1,061 4/6

 

[jack action]

Wordle 1,061 4/6

 

[Mister T]

@kuruman

UNTIL is better than FLUID. What about TULIP?

Just noticed that UNTIL is a previous solution. TULIP is not!

 

[Mister T]

Wordle 1,061 3/6





At last, a bit of luck!

 

[Orodruin]

So UNTIL increases your chances for hits over TULIP albeit not by much. Either choice has the top 3 letters IUL.

LUCID has 4 of the top 5 at the price of including a slightly less common D.

 

[OmCheeto]

LUCID has 4 of the top 5 at the price of including a slightly less common D.

Based on the fact that kuruman counts all occurrences of letters, hence having double 'L' words give 'L' a boost in the rankings, and according to my single letter count theory, 'Y' is the second most information rich letter, and hence, UNITY is the best choice, with a score of 409.

Post "AROSE" played with no hits letter counts by player

Om​		kuruman​
15.23%​	I​	14.64%​
10.28%​	Y​	8.52%​
9.54%​	U​	9.40%​
8.99%​	L​	9.29%​
6.61%​	T​	6.67%​
6.42%​	N​	6.99%​
6.06%​	C​	6.99%​
5.50%​	H​	6.67%​
5.14%​	P​	5.03%​
4.95%​	M​	4.59%​
4.22%​	D​	4.15%​
3.85%​	G​	3.93%​
3.49%​	B​	2.62%​
3.12%​	F​	3.93%​
1.83%​	K​	2.73%​
1.83%​	W​	1.31%​
0.92%​	V​	0.87%​
0.92%​	Z​	0.87%​
0.55%​	J​	0.33%​
0.37%​	Q​	0.33%​
0.18%​	X​	0.11%​

OmCheeto word value after playing 'AROSE' with no hits. (fully bolded column under the top row 'h')

i​

u​

y​

l​

n​

c​

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m​

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123​

90​

80​

75​

61​

57​

56​

55​

41​

36​

35​

33​

27​

27​

24​

13​

7​

6​

3​

3​

1​

0​

0​

0​

0​

0​

5​

0=not​

5​

2

0​

0​

378​

l​

u​

c​

i​

d​

i​

y​

u​

l​

t​

n​

c​

h​

p​

m​

d​

g​

.​

∑​

legit?​

legit?​

word​

yup​

this​

409​

1​

2​

3​

4​

5​

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1​

2​

3​

4​

5​

6​

7​

8​

9​

10​

11​

12​

13​

5​

1​

5​

tulip​

0​

384​

t​

u​

l​

i​

p​

4​

2​

3​

1​

5​

5​

1​

5​

guilt​

0​

378​

g​

u​

i​

l​

t​

3​

2​

4​

5​

1​

5​

1​

5​

tunic​

0​

386​

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5​

1​

5​

until​

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404​

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n​

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4​

1​

5​

3​

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5​

unlit​

0​

404​

u​

n​

l​

i​

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4​

1​

3​

5​

2​

5​

1​

5​

unity​

0​

409​

u​

n​

i​

t​

y​

3​

5​

1​

4​

2​

5​

1​

5​

lucid​

0​

378​

l​

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d​

4​

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[dwarde]

Wordle 1,061 4/6

 

[Orodruin]

Wordle 1 062 3/6

 

[OmCheeto]

Wordle 1,062 4/6

 

[Orodruin]

Based on the fact that kuruman counts all occurrences of letters, hence having double 'L' words give 'L' a boost in the rankings, and according to my single letter count theory, 'Y' is the second most information rich letter, and hence, UNITY is the best choice, with a score of 409.

Post "AROSE" played with no hits letter counts by player

Om​		kuruman​
15.23%​	I​	14.64%​
10.28%​	Y​	8.52%​
9.54%​	U​	9.40%​
8.99%​	L​	9.29%​
6.61%​	T​	6.67%​
6.42%​	N​	6.99%​
6.06%​	C​	6.99%​
5.50%​	H​	6.67%​
5.14%​	P​	5.03%​
4.95%​	M​	4.59%​
4.22%​	D​	4.15%​
3.85%​	G​	3.93%​
3.49%​	B​	2.62%​
3.12%​	F​	3.93%​
1.83%​	K​	2.73%​
1.83%​	W​	1.31%​
0.92%​	V​	0.87%​
0.92%​	Z​	0.87%​
0.55%​	J​	0.33%​
0.37%​	Q​	0.33%​
0.18%​	X​	0.11%​

OmCheeto word value after playing 'AROSE' with no hits. (fully bolded column under the top row 'h')

i​

u​

y​

l​

n​

c​

h​

t​

p​

m​

g​

d​

b​

f​

k​

w​

v​

z​

j​

q​

x​

a​

e​

o​

r​

s​

123​

90​

80​

75​

61​

57​

56​

55​

41​

36​

35​

33​

27​

27​

24​

13​

7​

6​

3​

3​

1​

0​

0​

0​

0​

0​

5​

0=not​

5​

2

0​

0​

378​

l​

u​

c​

i​

d​

i​

y​

u​

l​

t​

n​

c​

h​

p​

m​

d​

g​

.​

∑​

legit?​

legit?​

word​

yup​

this​

409​

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5​

_​

1​

2​

3​

4​

5​

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12​

13​

5​

1​

5​

tulip​

0​

384​

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4​

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3​

1​

5​

5​

1​

5​

guilt​

0​

378​

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1​

5​

1​

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tunic​

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386​

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404​

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4​

1​

3​

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2​

5​

1​

5​

unity​

0​

409​

u​

n​

i​

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y​

3​

5​

1​

4​

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5​

1​

5​

lucid​

0​

378​

l​

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c​

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d​

4​

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5​

I strongly suspect that it is possible to improve on these models by including the fact that letter occurrences are correlated and not independent. For example, the inclusion of a Y should have some positive correlation to the inclusion of a C or T based on how Y typically appears at the end of a word as -TY or -CY.

 

[jack action]

Wordle 1,062 3/6

 

[sbrothy]

Wordle 1.062 3/6*





I know it looks like I only participate when I do good but of course I honestly don’t know beforehand. :)

Spoiler

https://ibb.co/zZzqJJv

 

[Mister T]

Wordle 1,062 5/6







Edit: My 2nd guess was intended to tease out the correct letters (something you can't do in hard mode) and it sorta worked. But again I suppose I was the the victim of bad luck.

 

[kuruman]

Wordle 1,062 3/6

 

[sbrothy]

Seriously, I’m baffled by the investment some of you people put into this. Spredsheets, statistics and what have we. I’m almost scared. Remind me never to play poker or chess involving real money with you people.

:)

 

[Orodruin]

Spredsheets, statistics and what have we.

I mean, I don’t actually use any of those when I play. Jist saying that if I were to …

Remind me never to play poker or chess involving real money with you people.

I spent quite some time playing poker and online poker as a PhD student. Made quite a bit of money overall.

Also went a couple of times with some other PhD students and a postdoc to the Stockholm casino to play in their low stakes tournament (basically €50+10 with 80 players). Was fun, won it once, although first time I got kicked out on a KK vs AA pre-flop all-in.

 

[sbrothy]

I mean, I don’t actually use any of those when I play. Jist saying that if I were to …


I spent quite some time playing poker and online poker as a PhD student. Made quite a bit of money overall.

Also went a couple of times with some other PhD students and a postdoc to the Stockholm casino to play in their low stakes tournament (basically €50+10 with 80 players). Was fun, won it once, although first time I got kicked out on a KK vs AA pre-flop all-in.

Somehow I’m not surprised. :)

Although I’m not really sure what KK and AA mean. Is it code for suspected idiot savant a la Rainman? :)

I’m joking