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Winning Wordle Wisely—or How to Ruin a Fun Little Internet Game with Math

Winning Wordle Wisely—or How to Ruin a Fun Little Internet Game with Math Winning Wordle Wisely—or How to Ruin a Fun Little Internet Game with Math Martin B. Short n this missive, the author goes about ruining an online be checked first to see whether they are Green, in which word guessing game called Wordle by generally try- case those instances needn’t be checked for the other two ing to mathify the whole thing. On the other hand, colors. one might consider that the author is trying to spice 2. Yellow (Y): a Yellow letter generally indicates that up mathematics by applying it to an online word the secret solution word has that letter somewhere, Iguessing game. Also, a spoiler alert: don’t read past but not at that particular location. This color is a the phrase “The solution is ...” if you want to retain that little more complicated than Green, which is totally Wordle magic. unambiguous, since there are edge cases to consider here. The full algorithm for yellow letters seems to be as follows. First, remove any letters correspond- How to Play Wordle ing to Green letters from the secret solution, thus It is now January 2022 and Wordle has taken the internet leaving a substring (this is so that letters already by storm. Six weeks later, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Mathematical Intelligencer Springer Journals

Winning Wordle Wisely—or How to Ruin a Fun Little Internet Game with Math

Short, Martin B.
The Mathematical Intelligencer , Volume 44 (3) – Sep 1, 2022
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Winning Wordle Wisely—or How to Ruin a Fun Little Internet Game with Math Martin B. Short n this missive, the author goes about ruining an online be checked first to see whether they are Green, in which word guessing game called Wordle by generally try- case those instances needn’t be checked for the other two ing to mathify the whole thing. On the other hand, colors. one might consider that the author is trying to spice 2. Yellow (Y): a Yellow letter generally indicates that up mathematics by applying it to an online word the secret solution word has that letter somewhere, Iguessing game. Also, a spoiler alert: don’t read past but not at that particular location. This color is a the phrase “The solution is ...” if you want to retain that little more complicated than Green, which is totally Wordle magic. unambiguous, since there are edge cases to consider here. The full algorithm for yellow letters seems to be as follows. First, remove any letters correspond- How to Play Wordle ing to Green letters from the secret solution, thus It is now January 2022 and Wordle has taken the internet leaving a substring (this is so that letters already by storm. Six weeks later,

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Published: Sep 1, 2022

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