[salomon812]

It's very possible we don't have the same dictionary! I have 8938 words. I confirmed that NARES, DOILY, and TOUCH are in my dictionary. My analysis shows that SERAI's worst-case is 461 words and NARES would have 578.

I found my code a bit difficult to debug at the end because it's still halfway decent at playing wordle. So, I fully admit I might not be doing it right!

But one thing I also did was allow it to pick a word it knew wasn't possible but could eliminate a lot of possibilities quickly.

[vitus]

It's worth noting that there are two dictionaries used in this implementation: "possibleWords" (from which the solution can be drawn) and "impossibleWords" (other words that are valid guesses).

https://qntm.org/files/wordle/words.js

These are most likely the same words in the implementation at https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/ based on

    ["cigar","rebut","sissy","humph","awake","blush","focal","evade",

showing up in the minified js (which are the first 8 words in possibleWords in order).

[salomon812]

Good point! And it's clear to me that this isn't the dictionary I was using. I grabbed a random Scrabble dictionary online and filtered for length of five. I'll rework my code to take all this into account and we'll see what happens (it probably will happen later today.)

[salomon812]

Okay! It's been reworked with all of this new information, so it knows what words are possible. And I also had it output what it would consider to be the worst-case scoring and it matches the adversarial's scoring! Here's what I get now:

    R A I S E (0 green, 0 yellow, 168 words remain)
    B L U D Y (1 green, 0 yellow, 13 words remain)
    C O U N T (2 green, 1 yellow, 2 words remain)
    V O U C H (4 green, 0 yellow, 1 word remains)
    P O U C H (5 green, 0 yellow, 0 words remain)

[MereInterest]

I'm guessing that we're both working from the 2019 Collins Scrabble Word list[0], since that's the list of words I used, my implementation also tries to minimize the maximum number of resulting possibilities, and also have SERAI as the first guess every time.

[0] https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/38366/latest-...