Optimal Wordle

Everything you’ve read about Wordle is wrong. Or, at least, everything I’ve read about choosing your first Wordle guess makes a poor assumption: that you should guess as many of the most common letters as possible. Now, it turns out that the best first guess (which I will get to) is composed of very common letters, but it ranks 24th on the list of words by average letter frequency. Why is guessing the most common letters not the best strategy? …

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