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Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously
If you’ve fallen far enough down the Wordle rabbit hole you may have heard of Quordle, a version of Wordle where you solve four words at once. If you’re looking for more of a challenge, Britannica has you covered with Octordle, where you solve eight words at once. And of course any Wordler worth their salt should be able to handle sixteen words, like in Sedecordle. And no, it doesn’t stop there:
The values on the right are the same from earlier, showing the score distribution of the SALET/ REAST mixed strategy on 1000 random permutations of the 2315 secret words. During the competition, the best combination of strategies I found was by assigning 10% of the permutation to each of the top 10 Wordle starting words: SALET, REAST, CRATE, TRACE, SLATE, CRANE, CARLE, SLANE, CARTE, and TORSE. After generalizing this trick for subsets of N words with only N possible locations, we can incorporate it into the top 10 mixed strategy to squeeze out some extra performance:
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