Daily Recommended Wordle Strategy

Taking into account Wordle history (and assuming solutions are not reused), a recommended strategy, computed by a fast heuristic, is presented below. (See Alex Selby's How_to_use_a_strategy_file.)

Uses the updated New York Times solutions list of 3158 words (as if that was in effect from the start of Wordle) and makes guesses only from this list, but does not restrict to hard mode. When all else is equal in heuristic evaluation, a guess is chosen from the 2302 older words neither added nor removed by the NYT.

Note that since the NYT actually takes into account the frequency of words when choosing the daily solution, it might be wise to not follow the "recommended" strategy blindly but rather to look at the end stage where few possible solutions remain and use your own judgment; in some cases, you may want to use a more common word from among the possible solutions if it won't hurt the worst-case performance.

Further background at http://rig.cs.luc.edu/~rig/wordle. 






 Last updated
 on 26-Sep-24 at 11:28 CDT
 by Ronald I. Greenberg 
 (rig at cs.luc.edu)