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by divbzero 1609 days ago
> never take > 6 guesses

I suspect that with most languages it’s impossible to achieve 100% win rate for five or more letters. So w7 should be by far the largest weight but I don’t think it can be infinite.

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I suspect the opposite. While the theoretical number of combinations is huge, the amount of information given by each guess grows faster than the number of real words of longer lengths.