A Deep Dive into Wordle, the New Pandemic Puzzle Craze
Evaluating different heuristics to determine the most effective solving strategy and building an AI-powered assistant tool to help you win
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12 min readJan 23, 2022
Wordle has reignited group chats, enlivened everyone’s competitive spirits, and inundated Twitter with cryptic emoji grids since it achieved viral status in January of 2022. Django Gold, a New York-based comedian, tweeted that doing the puzzle at midnight is a crucial aspect of his daily existential dread…