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

A slight correction to the previous video, with some 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

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