After you enter your first guess word into the Wordle puzzle at its NY Times page, the puzzle tells you which letters in your guess are green (found in the answer word in the positions you entered), which ones are yellow (found in the answer word but not in the positions you entered) and which ones are black (they are not found in the answer word).
The Advisor helps you decide what to do next. You enter the green letters in their respective positions on the top row of the Advisor's form, and you enter yellow letters in the next row and their corresponding numerical positions (1 to 5) in the row below yellow letters. Finally, you enter black letters in the text field below (their positions obviously do not matter) and press the "Analyze!" button.
In response, the Wordle Advisor generates a list of words that satisfy the current state of the puzzle. Often, the list is quite long, and selection of your next entry into the puzzle requires intuition (and luck). It is hard to evaluate the probability of each word to bcome a solution. This is why the words are displayed in alphabetical order. To help you with selection of the next word, the Advisor computes how many times each letter is found at each position in the suggested list of candidate words. Of course, these frequencies make sense only when the number of words in the list is large.
You try to select a word with letters that are most frequent in their positions. When you enter your selection in the Wordle puzzle, you get additionial information about green, yellow and black letters. You add this feedback into the Wordle Advisor, and lo and behold, the Advisor generates a much shorter list of potential solutions.
In my practice, without using the Wordle Advisor I usually reach solution in four to five attempts (sometimes, with a lot of stress). The use of the Advisor shortens the number of tries to three or four.
Try it, it is fun!
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