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Main Author: de Silva, Nisansa
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Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03457
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contents Wordle, a word guessing game rose to global popularity in the January of 2022. The goal of the game is to guess a five-letter English word within six tries. Each try provides the player with hints by means of colour changing tiles which inform whether or not a given character is part of the solution as well as, in cases where it is part of the solution, whether or not it is in the correct placement. Numerous attempts have been made to find the best starting word and best strategy to solve the daily wordle. This study uses character statistics of five-letter words to determine the best three starting words.
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spellingShingle Selecting Seed Words for Wordle using Character Statistics
de Silva, Nisansa
Computation and Language
Wordle, a word guessing game rose to global popularity in the January of 2022. The goal of the game is to guess a five-letter English word within six tries. Each try provides the player with hints by means of colour changing tiles which inform whether or not a given character is part of the solution as well as, in cases where it is part of the solution, whether or not it is in the correct placement. Numerous attempts have been made to find the best starting word and best strategy to solve the daily wordle. This study uses character statistics of five-letter words to determine the best three starting words.
title Selecting Seed Words for Wordle using Character Statistics
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03457