What I Learned from Playing More than a Million Games of Wordle

Caution! This post contains some Wordle spoilers

barrysmyth
Towards Data Science
18 min readJan 20, 2022

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Ok, full disclosure: I didn’t actually play a million games of Wordle, but I wrote a Wordle simulator that did. Why? Because I wanted to learn more about the dynamics of the game and evaluate some of the strategies that people have been discussing online, especially those that…

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