I mentioned that I'm also playing ABSURDLE.
ABSURDLE is based on the same principles as WORDLE, but it's sneakier. The game doesn't start off having chosen a word; it only gives the impression that it has.
Instead, (behind the scenes) when you've input your first guess, the game sorts out different groups or "buckets" of words that would correspond as a result of your guess. It has a word list of 2,315 possible secret words / answers, and it chooses the "bucket" of words with the highest number of possible answers to your guess.
None of that is visible to you, the player. You make your first guess, and let's say that the result is all black (no right letters). The game has chosen the bucket of words that offers you the biggest challenge - the most possible words.
You make your second guess. Let's say that you get 1 or 2 letters "yellow" (correct letters but not correct spot). You'll ONLY get that response if ABSURDLE's inner machinery has worked out that it still has the edge on you - that giving you one or two "right" letters is from its biggest "bucket" of words (largest number of possibilities) with the possibilities having been whittled down as a result of your guess.
And so on, until YOU have pushed the game into a cul de sac where there is only one possible word choice.
In other words, it's being extremely sneaky.
If you always start off with the same starter word, you'll always get the same result. (The algorithm doesn't change; only your behaviour does.) So... if you use exactly the same word guesses each step of the way, you'll always get the same final answer. It's up to you to play the game differently each time, in order to get a different path and a different result.
I want to stress that you play it EXACTLY as you play WORDLE, and it looks the same. It's just the inside workings are driven by your choices.
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