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Researchers developed a Wordle-solving strategy that succeeds 99% of the time by focusing on information gain rather than likely answers. The method uses Shannon entropy to identify guesses that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Binghamton researchers used Shannon entropy to build a Wordle solver that outperformed a common letter-based strategy. (CREDIT: ...

Across simulations using all 2,315 possible Wordle solution words, the entropy-based strategy solved almost every puzzle within six tries, while the baseline method succeeded about 90% of the time.