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by mavili 1475 days ago
Thanks for the fun. Your valid words are a very small subset of the English dictionary, why is that? I recently wrote a simple Wordle 'solver' (https://github.com/beyazhilal/wordle-solver) and although my list contains some invalid words like acronyms, when I was searching for the English dictionary words I always got a list of at least 120k+; but you only have 12k! That obviously makes the game impossible to win.

Don't know about Route53 + Cloudfront combination but your #4 challenge would be super simple with a webserver like apache or nginx.

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It’s probably because wordle’s word list is known and about 12k words long.

The wordlist can be found on GitHub or by viewing source, so you can probably just discount 90% of the words in your guesser before you even start.