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by AnotherGoodName 1611 days ago
You could probably have fun with

Player 1) create a predictable process that can guess wordle words

Player 2) given the full code of 1 find a word that will not be found by that process in 6 steps

The game is over if someone can decide a process that catches all valid 5 letter words in 6 steps.

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I believe there are already plenty of solvers doing it in five steps, worst case, as in [1]. I don't think any are doing it in four, but I doubt anyone has yet demonstrated that four is impossible.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29890845

For future readers, the following link claims that five steps, worst case, is incorrect, and six is the smallest maximum: https://www.poirrier.ca/notes/wordle-optimal/