Solving Wordle using information theory

Imagine Grant's friend innocently telling him that his Wordle opener was "weary", only for him to publish a 30-minute essay on why that's stupid a week later😅

creating an algorithm for this and comparing them against each other sounds like it would have made a great programming competition

The position of letters is a factor. For example, I prefer TALES over SALET ( SALET is recommended by others who have done computer analysis of this game) because if I do NOT get a green S, then that rules out a huge number of plural four-letter nouns with an S on the end, like BOOMS. Note that I am getting a lot of information out an absence of a match there. Though Y is a fairly rare letter, it turns up at the end of a lot of five-letter words. Letters like L, R and H are important beyond their commonness because they often combine with other consonants as in BLAND, PROSE, and CHAIR.

Never have I ever been tricked into enjoying a math class like this. I wish I had you instead of all my college professors

Interesting video, real good stuff. Gonna keep using PENIS but this was really cool and informative!

Grant: “this video’s getting kinda long.”
Me: “what are we at, like 10? 15 minutes? He’s got plenty of time!”
Me after checking clock: “oh…”

Just realised WORDLE now has a "hard mode" where you MUST use existing information in future guesses (i.e. if you get a green first letter and yellow fourth letter, future guesses HAVE to start with that same first letter and mix that other letter around). Curious how this would affect the amount of information obtained at each guess, particularly with an algorithm looking ahead multiple guesses.

The amount of preparation work in order to produce a video like this is unbelievable.. truly impressive work.

4:00 note that the list used in Wordle is the exact list of words allowed in international tournament Scrabble. It's called CSW19.

I love those sketches you put in when depicting real life situations, like the conversation between Von Neumann and Shannon 12:01!

A year later and my blind devotion to your original video has paid off. Thank you kindly!

This video is so well done.
The word play at 18:40, the hidden messages in the game at 25:25... This video gives me "Gödel, Escher, Bach" vibes, and that is something that has never happened to me since I read that book. Awesome.

18:38 I bet you had a lot of fun writing that bit

thanks for making this. now people will stop asking me to make this video, lol

On Jun 21, 2023 I put down the word CRANE and to my amazement, it was the word of the day! Its the only word I got on my first try

I could've never had forgiven my self had I not played Wordle today. Been using crane since this video came about.

Came for the wordle, stayed for the awesome lesson on information theory. Cool!

"we shouldn't let machines rule our lives" -the man writing and using a wordle bot

Love the video!

After 512 days, crane has finally won first try. Thank you

This video is why I got my first 1/6 score today 😁😁😁