Oh, wait, actually the best Wordle opener is not “crane”…

Following up on the Worlde-solver (https://youtu.be/v68zYyaEmEA), discussing a minor bug and more details about how the best first word was chosen.
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Contents:
0:00 – The Bug
3:31 – How the best first guess is chosen
8:54 – Does this ruin the game?

Nice post by Jonathan Olson on optimal wordle algorithms:
https://jonathanolson.net/experiments/optimal-wordle-solutions

More on optimal strategies:
http://sonorouschocolate.com/notes/index.php?titleThe_best_strategies_for_Wordle

Code for this video:
https://github.com/3b1b/videos/tree/master/_2022/wordle

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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https://github.com/3b1b/videos/

Music by Vincent Rubinetti.
https://www.vincentrubinetti.com/

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