Examples of using Wordle Advisor

In the first example, after the initial entry into the puzzle World Advisor generated 39 candidate words. This is a relatively good start, but of course it was not clear which one of these candidates to choose. In this case, the letter "t" had a relatively larger frequency in position 5, and the letter "o" - in position 2. Selecting "hoist" ended the game since only one word satisfied the additionial feedback from the Wordle puzzle.

In the second example, the first attempt brought a whopping result - 256 candidate words! Letter "y" had a larger frequency in position 5, and letter "e" - in position 2. Entering "retry" was not a particularly good shot - the leter "y" was black, and the letter "e" was in a different place. Still, the number of potential candidates decreased to 45. Choosing "baker" as the third attempt resulted in additional feedback so that Wordle Advisor generated only 3 candidate words that satisfied the total of information about green, yellow and black letters.

This extract from the Worldle Advisor screen demonstrates a rather typical situation - letters "e" and "r" turned as yellow in different positons. This is fine - they all should be entered into the Advisor to eliminate as many candidate words as possible. The picture also demonstrates the dilemma that often occurs in the middle of the game. Should one select words "creak", "freak" and "wreak" one after another (finishing the puzzle in 4, 5 or 6 attempts)? In this case there was no risk to fail the puzzle, but sometimes the number of similar candidates is so large that the remaining attempts are not sufficient for assuring the solution in six tries.

Here, a different approach was used - a word that was not in the list of candidates but contained the letters "w" and "f" which were not tested yet. If one of these would turn out yellow or green at the fourth attempt, that letter should be used in the next attempt to reach the solution. If both of them were black in the fourth attempt (as indeed was the case), this would indicate that the letter "c" should be used in the fifth attempt. The puzzle was solved in five attempts.

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