Originally published at: Here's an easy way to cheat in Wordle | Boing Boing
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My gut reaction to this is: why would anyone care to have a cheat method? Is there some kind of prize at the end of days, where the best Wordleists ascend? It’s an amusing little guessing game we play for 5 minutes in the morning before the real day begins.
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I mean cheating at wordle is silly, but also, isn’t it spelled ROTE?
Can’t even trust these cheaters to spell.
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I was bored…at work…so i wrote a script to do letter counts of all the 5 letter words and then find me two words that have all the top 10 most frequently used letters. so i have a good starting point. thats just good preparation, not cheating, in my mind. i do want to write a script, just for fun, that will solve it. but i won’t use it because i enjoy solving the puzzle. but i also like a good programming challenge, so…anyway, i was board at work.
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Seeing other posts on letter frequency made me intersted in what would happen if we built a sequence logo (position specific letter information content in bits).
Of course it turns out someone already did that using a dictionary of all 5 letter words (not past answers). Creating a sequence logo of 5-letter words for Wordle - YouTube
Anyway if you find that sort of analysis fun it’s an interesting thing to replicate, potentially with other dictionaries. I’m still sticking with my current starter “train” though.
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I think the cheat is broken. Knoll doesn’t have a g, a or s
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Wow, that’s my starter too! 
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I just starter doing Wordle a few days ago. I came across a wordle archive for past puzzles.
Nice!
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I never can remember what I used the day before, but apparently I used a good starter word today!
Wordle 224 2/6
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Wordle 224 5/6
Well done!
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It was sheer luck on my part. Nothing more. 
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Awesome!
I didn’t do quite as well, but I got lucky:
Wordle 224 3/6
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Just for fun:
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Wordle 226 3/6
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Wordle 6 3/6
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Well done
Wordle 226 4/6
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just peeking under the hood a little i found the list of all the words Wordle uses, so that seems to be a good starting place, i am going to run my code again using that list and see if it comes up with anything different.
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while the letter frequency did change a little the top 5 and top 10 letters remain unchanged. going to take @BradC’s approach and see if i can get a letter distribution by position,
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Wordle 11 3/6
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