The Javascript for the page gives valid words ... and potential answers PA < VL < Scrabble dict etc
nice is https://www.wordleunlimited.com as you can do continuous play ~greg heil picsrp.github.io i.tgu.ca/real_cal -- from: 'Pascal Jasmin' to: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> date: Jan 24, 2022, 7:10 AM subject: Re: [Jprogramming] wordle >I would start with a 5 word dictionary sorted by english language inclusion >frequency of each letter. >Each guess results in a pruning of this dictionary, (3 prunings for: just >words with letter in right position, no letter, and letter in wrong position) >but previous guesses can be discarded. The strategically optimal next guess >is always the word at the top of the pruned dictionary. -- from: Ian Clark <[email protected]> to: Programming forum <[email protected]> date: Jan 24, 2022, 7:00 AM subject: Re: [Jprogramming] wordle >Wordle strikes me as a variation of Mastermind / Cows & Bulls / Moo, using >alpha instead of digits, or colors. See https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/moo >-by Roger Hui, which plays moo as the guesser. There's a useful list of links >at the end. >I can't see an alternative to the brute force approach: start with a >(published) list of English words and repeatedly prune it using the feedback. >Having implemented a Mastermind guesser ca. 1989 (and lost the APL code) I >recall that the list shortens rapidly, but only if you make maximum use of the >feedback info. -- from: bill lam <[email protected]> to: Programming forum <[email protected]> date: Jan 24, 2022, 6:09 AM subject: [Jprogramming] wordle >he game wordle in the website. https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/ >Any idea of how to generate a list of candidates words after new information >from each row? Eg, T H I E F # all wrong R A D O N # O and N are there but misplaced what is the list of words for the 3rd row ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
