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by not2b 1612 days ago
I've picked a first word with the most common letters (ATONE for example), then do a grep on the 'enable1' word list (the one that a number of word games use) to exclude all 'impossible' words. The second word is chosen to have many common letters not in the first word but also matching any constraints. Then I do another filter; often by the 3rd guess there are fewer than 100 possibilities left. I then choose the word that seems the most common, because Wordle often chooses relatively common words as the answer, I haven't seen an obscure word picked yet. I've gotten it in three this way a couple of times, and if not, repeating the grep pipeline often leaves only a few words for the fourth guess.