Finding the Best Wordle Opener with Machine Learning

How I almost arrived at the same opening word as 3blue1brown

Harrison Hoffman
Towards Data Science
8 min readFeb 9, 2022

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If you’re viewing this article, then you’ve likely heard of the trendy internet game “Wordle”. It’s a highly addictive, family-dividing brain-teaser that was recently purchased by the New York Times. The objective of this game is to guess the word of the day, which is always…

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