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I spent a while looking for a different type of optimal wordle solution as well that I haven't seen anyone else try, whats the minimum number of words you need where you can guess the same set of X words and then have enough information to guarantee solve the puzzle on the next guess? After running a search overnight I found a fair amount of 8-word sets that satisfied this property, but nothing lower


This is by defintion suboptimal, as you'd ignore information gain from each guess.

Only the first guess is "unbounded"


this is a specific limitation I'm imposing because it makes for an interesting problem, not because its meant to be optimal.


If you were careful, you could cover 25 of 26 letters in 5 guesses.





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