Wordle Analytics - January 2024

@Hippasus500 I do follow a site that does publish the solution for that day and wait till the end of the month to get the list. I then use Python to scan the words line by line to get the count and percent of each letter for all the words in the month. I find the distribution analytics like this fun to look at. I have a post I need me make about the all the words from last year. https://claytonerrington.com/blog/wordle-analytics/ Wordle Analytics - Clayton Errington

@cjerrington Have you analyzed published solution lists the same way? I depend on frequency tables when deciding how to guess. The ones I use are for English as a whole, rather than just the words included in the solutions list. The NYT editors have been tweaking the solutions list for months, so results won’t be exact. But it’s still useful information.

@Hippasus500 this is the site I use for the analytics I like to run https://screenrant.com/wordle-answers-updated-word-puzzle-guide/

@Hippasus500 what li k are you looking for or asking about?

@cjerrington What’s the link? Does it publish in the Fediverse? I’ve thought of adding a bit to my wordlehelper to compare possible solutions from a pattern against used solutions. AFAIK, the NYT editors are still respecting the rule to not repeat previous solutions. I try to invoke wordlehelper only when I’m really stuck (a situation that has multiple triggers…). So far, wordlehelper has been adequate without that. And I don’t want too much help. <wink> Still, I’m tempted.

@cjerrington Sorry for not be sufficiently explicit! The site from which you pull the month’s solutions. Here’s the link to the site for the solution list I originally used when writing wordlehelper: https://gist.github.com/scholtes/94f3c0303ba6a7768b47583aff36654d

@cjerrington The GitHub file was published by Garrett Sholtes.

@cjerrington Thanks!