Up your Wordle game!
Are you obsessed with playing the increasingly-popular word game Wordle?
Ever wondered what the optimal first word to guess might be?
As a fan of the game myself, I've done some quick analytics to try and help guide you.
Final output is a text file of 60 words (best_guesses.txt) that are good initial guesses when playing Wordle. The list can, with manual curation, be pared down further to only the more common words used in the game.
Requirements
- urllib
- collections
- numpy
- seaborn
- matplotlib
This code uses a lexicon of English words provided on GitHub by dwyl here.
A write-up of this work can be found here.
A independent analysis that uses a different data set and looks into letter placement can be found here.
Updated my analysis to use the official Wordle solutions list of 2,309 words.
I also find pairs of words that are good opening 1st and 2nd guesses that will help you to eliminate letters.
Added a list of previous Wordle solutions as of 29 Apr 2022 (previous_wordle_solutions_314.txt) in order to remove them from my analysis.