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The discussion centers around the enjoyment of the daily Wordle game from the New York Times, with participants sharing their results and strategies. Many players express their competitive nature, often playing against friends or family, and discuss their preferred starting words. There are mentions of variations of Wordle in different languages and formats, highlighting the game's widespread appeal. Some users share their experiences with similar games, like Mastermind, and discuss the challenges posed by obscure words. Overall, the thread fosters a community of Wordle enthusiasts who appreciate the game's complexity and fun.
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##N=166\; , \;\mu=4.289\; , \;\sigma =1.208##
 
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Not sure if it’s already mentioned. I play
www.sedecordle.com , where you solve 16 wordles simultaneously in 21 tries.
 
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##N=167\, , \,\mu=4.299\, , \,\sigma=1.211##
 
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##N=130\, , \,\mu=4.085\, , \,\sigma=0.993##
 
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##N=130\, , \,\mu=4.085\, , \,\sigma=0.993##
How many characteristics, six or seven? Or five, because nobody has a one-guess-only.
 
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DrGreg said:
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##N=130\, , \,\mu=4.085\, , \,\sigma=0.993##
fresh_42 said:
How many characteristics, six or seven? Or five, because nobody has a one-guess-only.
Seven.
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The orange curve is a normal distribution with the same ##N, \mu, \sigma## as my discrete statistics in blue.

Although I've plotted a zero for one guess, it doesn't make any difference to the calculation. (I'm doing this via an Excel spreadsheet.)
 
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##N=168\, , \, \mu=4.298\, , \,\sigma =1.208##

Makes sense. My individual conditions (smaller active vocabulary as a non-native speaker, tendency to complicate things, solving it more in the style of Mastermind (from Parker IIRC) than wordle) explain the higher variance. I just asked whether we consider 7 as unsolved or disregard the unsolved which would make a significant difference.
 
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##N=127,~\mu=3.661,~\sigma=0.893##
 
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Which graphic tool do you use?
 
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Which graphic tool do you use?
If you're asking me, I use Excel for Mac.
 
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##\{X_1,\ldots,X_7\}\, , \,N=169\, , \,\mu=4.290\, , \,\sigma =1.208 ##
 
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Aggravating that after being given an exceptional seed word ( 7 choices left! ), I'd take the worst route.
 
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I have made my first important step towards elevating myself from natural stupidity to artificial intelligence. My solution to puzzle 534, which I can now post, was identical to that of the Master who has unequivocally acknowledged that "We are as one."

Resistance is futile.

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I have made my first important step towards elevating myself from natural stupidity to artificial intelligence. My solution to puzzle 534, which I can now post, was identical to that of the Master who has unequivocally acknowledged that "We are as one."

Resistance is futile.
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This is why I changed my seed word methodology. Wrichik posted in game 494 that he had played identically to that of Wordlebot. So I checked and discovered that I had also played identically. I thought that would be very boring if everyone eventually ended up with the same algorithm, and changed from a single word to a list of 10 random words. 3 weeks later I switched to a completely different set of words based on 2 rather than 1 criteria. I'm not sure whether or not I've entered a lucky streak or my list of words is better than Wordlebot's 'SLATE', but it appears that I'm doing statistically better since the change.

Om vs Wordlebot. 2022-12-06 at 14.48.08.png

spreadsheet generated (Mac 'Numbers')

Btw, can someone check my sigma and mu numbers. I'm not familiar at all with this bell curve stuff and earlier when I entered several peoples numbers, my σs and µs were not matching the author's numbers all that well. I'm simply curve fitting the equation at the top to yield the highest R² value.

ps. And yes, I've googled the bejeezits out of how to do this and am still befuddled.
 
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Btw, can someone check my sigma and mu numbers.
Here are my calculated results from your data. The numbers are not the results of fits; they are calculated from your data using the standard formulas. Not much different from yours. The solid line is a normal distribution based on these numbers.

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OmCheeto said:
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spreadsheet generated (Mac 'Numbers')

Btw, can someone check my sigma and mu numbers. [...]

You can calculate the \mu and \sigma discretely using the following formulas:

\mu = \frac{\sum x_n}{N}

\sigma = \sqrt{\frac{\sum \left( x_n - \mu \right)^2}{N-1}}

So let's do each individually.

Wordlebot:

\mu = \frac{9(3)+ 9(4)+ 3(5)}{21} = \frac{78}{21} \approx 3.714

\sigma = \sqrt{ \frac{9 \left( 3 - 78/21 \right)^2 + 9 \left(4 - 78/21 \right)^2 + 3 \left( 5 - 78/21 \right)^2 }{20}} \approx 0.7171

OmCheeto:

\mu = \frac{3(2) + 10(3) + 6(4) + 2(5)}{21} = 70/21 \approx 3.333

\sigma = \sqrt{\frac{ 3 \left(2 - 70/21 \right)^2 + 10 \left( 3 - 70/21 \right)^2 + 6 \left(4 - 70/21 \right)^2 + 2 \left( 5 - 70/21 \right)^2}{20}} \approx 0.8563

(All this assumes that I didn't mess up the arithmetic myself.)

The bell curve might not be the best probability density function for your guesses.

What you can say though, according to the Central Limit Theorem, if you average your guesses -- let's say you average them over k trials, the probability density of your averaged guesses will approach the shape of the bell curve, AND, \mu_k \approx \mu, and \sigma_k \approx \frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{k}}, and these approximations will become more precise for increasing k.

[Edit: Oops. Forgot to take a square-root calculation on OmCheeto's results. Correction made.]
 
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