Tactics for Victory in Wordle Game
In the popular word guessing game, Wordle, players have six attempts to guess a five-letter word. If you're aiming to win within the allotted six guesses, a strategic approach can significantly boost your chances.
Researchers, including David Sidhu at University College London, have been exploring the "best first word" from a linguistic perspective. Meanwhile, a program constructed by two students, Tao Wei and Kanwal Ahmad, analysed all 2,315 official five-letter words in Wordle's dictionary.
The program attempted each possible word as a first guess and ran simulations across all possible end word solutions, checking how long each attempt would take to guess the correct end word. The analysis extended beyond previous approaches by performing simulations across all possible word options to find the best type of word to play first.
If players are playing to win in as few guesses as possible, it's best to play a word that has two vowels and three consonants. Surprisingly, six out of the top 10 words have just one vowel. The top three words to play are "slice," "tried," and "crane," with an average number of word attempts of 3.90, 3.92, and 3.92 respectively.
On subsequent guesses, the program used the frequency at which each letter appears in the list of 2,315 words to select the optimal word. The word with the highest score is then submitted as the next guess.
If you're just looking to win within the allotted six guesses, consider a word with fewer vowels and a word that ends in a consonant. For instance, the top three words to play are "adept," "clamp," and "plaid," with an average success rate in winning the game of 98.79 percent, 98.75 percent, and 98.75 percent respectively.
Multiple media outlets have published articles exploring the best word to use as the initial guess in Wordle. If you want to win with the fewest guesses, try making sure your first guess has two vowels, with one of them at the end of the word.
Wordle has skyrocketed in popularity, and players can learn whether each letter is correct and in the right location, appears in the word in another location, or isn't in the word at all with each guess.
This article was republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Derek Horstmeyer, a professor of finance at George Mason University's school of business, is the author of this article. The search results do not provide information about the name of the professor at George Mason University who specializes in Corporate Finance and determined optimal opening moves for the game Wordle.
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