The mathematically optimal Wordle strategy
An excuse to teach a lesson on information theory and entropy.
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Contents:
0:00 - What is Wordle?
2:43 - Initial ideas
8:04 - Information theory basics
18:15 - Incorporating word frequencies
27:49 - Final performance
Original wordle site:
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
Music by Vincent Rubinetti.
https://www.vincentrubinetti.com/
Shannon and von Neumann artwork by Kurt Bruns.
Code for this video:
https://github.com/3b1b/videos/blob/master/_2022/wordle.py
These animations are largely made using a custom python library, manim. See the FAQ comments here:
https://www.3blue1brown.com/faq#manim
https://github.com/3b1b/manim
https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/
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