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by calvinmorrison 1589 days ago
As many of you I took a jab at a wordle solver. That wasn't so hard.

Then I said, how can I guarantee as a human, I win, in 6 moves almost 100% of the time?

"Quick Brown Fox", as in, use as many possible letters in the alphabet, comprised of 5 letter words, given that we have only 5 words to play with. That gives us 25 characters to use.

I came up with

BLOCK VENTS JUMPY DWARF GHAZI

this leaves out Q and X, which is fine. Using this as a template basically boils Wordle down to a anagram game, so kind of defeats the purpose.

But in this case, i was able to resolve all 4 at one time using my above combination. I guessed, correctly all 4 with PLUMB GLEAN VALID IMPLY. I then realized, you get even more chances on Quordle, but I didn't need it!

2 comments

Doesn't work effectively for Quordle.

You have 9 guesses. This takes up 5 of them, then you need to be correct for each of the 4 words.

True, if you are only shooting to solve it in 9 then it can be easy with the right strategy. But many in our friend group are no longer satisfied with 9 and want 7 or fewer guesses :)