Cheating at Word Games: Part 2
This is a sequel to my previous post, where I laid out a Information Theoretical approach to algorithmically solving Wordle puzzles.
Cheating at Word Games
The other day, I saw the word game Wordle going around on my Twitter feed. The game prompts you to guess a 5-letter word in a Mastermind-like style - every letter in your guess is reported as being correct, as present (i.e. that letter occurs somewhere in the answer, but is misplaced), or as absent.
Intentoinal Errors
Check Your Backups
I fully intend to write a full blog-post as a follow-up to my previous post at some point, detailing some of the quirks of this setup and issues that I ran into - but I just got a timely reminder of the importance of checking backups, and wanted to pass it on to you.
My First Post
In true navel-gazey meta style, the first post on this blog is a description of how I set up the blog.