To keep one amused

[The Poot]

Wordle 798 3/6

 

[The Poot]

Wordle 799 4/6

 

[victor meldrew]

Wordle 799 4/6

 

[roche]

Wordle 799 5/6

 

[cwinte]

Wordle 799 4/6* new
76
9
only 1 now


Wordle 799 3/6* old
56
4, 2 possibles guarantee a 4
tried the "nicer" one

Knocked out a bit of code to score all possibles for how much each word I might try next would tell me. Trouble is it's unclear how best to use it. I need to work on some way to reduce it to a more simple score (or scores).

My scorer gives the result number (0=nothing, 2=green, 1=yellow) and possible words that would result for that pattern.

So for each of the 76 new first possibles it gave me results for each line 2 I could use like:

... a bad option, sneak with
A) 110: 19 possibles
B) 20110: contains group of sha.e that might mean a 6.
sneak Distinguishes 12 (words I would get on next line, 3)
10110:abase, abuse, amuse, aside, cease, chase, phase, usage
2110:anime, anode, inane
110:abide, abode, above, adage, adobe, agape, amaze, beach, beady, chafe, evade, heady, heave, heavy, image, mecca, media, peace, peach, weave
111:awake, awoke, quake
20110:sepia, shade, shame, shape, shave, space, spade, suave
1210:amend, hyena
1120:began, pecan, vegan
220:ahead, cheap

...
and the much better one I selected, snake:
snake Distinguishes 14 (words I would get on next line, 3)
222:awake, quake ( would indicate one of those 2 possibles)
20202:shade, shame, shape, shave, space, spade, suave
10102:abuse, amuse, aside (ynyng would leave those 3 possibles)
2101:annex, enema
101:abbey, ahead, cagey, cameo, cheap, decay, mecca, media, omega
2102:anime, anode
102:abide, abode, above, adobe
10202:abase, cease, chase, phase, usage
1101:amend, apnea, began, haven, hyena, ocean, pecan, vegan, waxen
201:beach, beady, heady, heavy, peach
202:adage, agape, amaze, chafe, evade, heave, image, peace, weave

The last line was the actual case and I had those 9 to sort out next...

Hope that made some sense! It's the sort of thing I enjoy (sanity test due??)

 

[The Poot]

Each to his own, I guess.
I just think it through and aim to get the correct result in less than four. Four is ok, more than four is less than satisfactory.

 

[cwinte]

Each to his own, I guess.
I just think it through and aim to get the correct result in less than four. Four is ok, more than four is less than satisfactory.

very sensible too!

 

[victor meldrew]

Wordle 800 5/6





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*****

 

[The Poot]

You still did better than I….
Wordle 800 6/6

 

[SixFooter]

Wordle 800 3/6

 

[cwinte]

Wordle 800 3/6* new
40
just 1

(The worst case of the other 39 possibles could have taken 5)

Wordle 800 4/6* old
651
2 (surprisingly good result)
50/50... I'll choose wrong since old method was weaker

(The worst of the 650 would also take 5)
The analyses are based on my new scoring code but I know it maybe has a weakness since it may not not take account of the groups well enough, so worst cases I mention could be worse in reality! Just exploring this...
Yup, looking for groups in the 650 I found 4 words that are 50/50 of 5 or 6, I might have missed others or worse I guess...

 

[roche]

Wordle 800 4/6

 

[The Poot]

So nearly a three….grrr!
Wordle 801 4/6

 

[SixFooter]

Wordle 801 4/6




Nowhere near a 3. 4 tho!

 

[victor meldrew]

Wordle 801 3/6

 

[roche]

Done for!
Wordle 801 X/6

 

[victor meldrew]

Done for!
Wordle 801 X/6

We’ve all been there, aye and more than once .
It’s how the cookie crumbles

 

[The Poot]

We’ve all been there, aye and more than once .
It’s how the cookie crumbles

And how the mop flops.

 

[victor meldrew]

And how the mop flops.

 

[cwinte]

Wordle 801 3/6* new
17 many similar words, my code indicated a 7+ worst case
so change method find a wider word not in the 17, now 1

At line 2 my scoring system suggested best words in order but what it thought was third best was actually better than the other 2 when I looked. But they were all very slow to pick off letters so I went for a valid word that was not a wordle answer...

Wordle 801 3/6* old
50
6, only 1 guarantees a 4
...the answer but lucky, could have taken 5
New approach was better but my code stuff needs more work as it would lead to stupid sequences of tries. Never trust the mechanical it seems, this was interesting!
The new method could easily have been trapped in guessing the missing letter(s) where the old method is all about avoiding that!