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How to Play Wordle? Is it a Real Game or a Puzzle?

If your Twitter feed has recently become cluttered with yellow and green squares shared by overly smug people, then congratulations — you’ve seen Wordle.  This online puzzle game has gone viral in the past few weeks, as people everywhere have realized that a) it’s great and b) it’s an easy way assert their mental superiority […]

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Solving Wordle Game using Information Theory and Entropy

Wordle is a web-based word game developed by Josh Wardle. Players have six attempts to guess a five-letter word; feedback is given for each guess, in the form of colored tiles, indicating when letters match or occupy the correct position. The mechanics are nearly identical to the 1955 pen-and-paper game Jotto and the US television […]