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by pxx 1606 days ago
Isn't that just #2, but changing the definition of losing to be the least number of rounds where you can always win (which for Wordle is 5)? These small changes to the definition don't seem to change ev (or the code needed to generate it) that much.

If you don't care about optimizing the EV at all, the greedy tree already has the property you're interested in.