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

Sejal Dua
Towards Data Science
12 min readJan 23, 2022

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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…

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Data Scientist @ Nike | Previously @ IBM Watson Health | Writing about Python, ML, NLP, Data Visualization, Music, and Sports | sejaldua.com