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by TimTheTinker 1478 days ago
I love the premise! It really pokes fun at how Wordle (and other popular games) are actually pretty hard to lose if you play anywhere above some very low threshold of effort/ability.

> it would also be cool to have a “Valid Solutions Remaining” feature

That would be awesome. I suppose the biggest challenge would be to enumerate possible solutions in tree form to allow DFS or BFS searching.

Thanks for sharing!

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I think that's actually what makes Wordle such a genius game - it's hard, you work for it, and it can happen, but you're very unlikely to actually lose!
Set a max 4 tries limit for yourself and see if you can maintain a 100% win streak. I've slipped to 5th on 16% of my wins with the 50% at 4, and 24% at 3 (and two (lucky) hits at 2. which I don't count.)