Iirc, Wordle’s inventor was on the radio recently, bbc natch; he concurred with the Mastermind attribution.
Mike Sent from my iPad > On 24 Jan 2022, at 14:59, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > >> On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 at 14:09, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The 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 >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
