⚔ Wordle Solutions using 5 Magic Words
Most likely the best guide to getting consistent with Wordle with stats & code
After a week or so of brute-forcing Wordle (read here), with the aid of the brilliant Marton Trencseni, I’m finally ready to close the chapter on this game. What started as an exercise in futility, ended up as an exercise in critical thinking and python magic (most of which was done by Marton).
What follows is not the chronicle, for that is too boring, but an essay on the Wordle phenomenon and how you can almost always get a solution, without breaking your head too much.
I’ll go over the basics, but if you’d like to jump straight into the solution, you can go here.
Wordle — The Game
In simple words, Wordle is a word game that gives you 6 chances to guess a randomly selected word. Each attempt reveals whether a letter from your guess exists in the selected word, both as a position confirmation (i.e if you entered “black” and the selected word is “beach”, the letters B & A will be highlighted as correct position letters. Additionally, entering the word “piece” will reveal E as letter in the selected word, but not in that position). Visually: