Solving Wordle using information theory
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A Wordle guess partitions answers by color feedback. Its expected information depends on the probability of each pattern, not merely how many branches it creates. Word-frequency priors can give unequal groups similar probability.
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The way we measure the quality of this guess will be to take the expected value of this information.So a quarter as many matches, but it's about as likely.