“XXXXX would be a better guess” suggesting a word that does NOT contain the letters I’ve already guessed correctly?
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It’s not about directly solving the word immediately, it’s about narrowing down the possibilities the most.
Let’s say your first guess is BATCH and you see green for all of ATCH. The problem is there are 7 5 letter words that end in ATCH:
– ~~Batch~~ We know it’s not this one, because we already guessed it.
– Catch
– Hatch
– Latch
– Match
– Patch
– Watch.
(Natch and Ratch are words but not potential answers in Wordle).
If you just guess the first letter with ATCH each time, you could end up getting unlucky and failing to solve. So instead you guess a word that has as many of those first letters as possible to eliminate them all in one fell swoop. You could guess CHAMP and know if it’s one of Catch, ~~Hatch,~~ Match, and Patch all at once, and if it’s not, you’ve used one guess to eliminate ~~four~~ three words instead of one.
This is why Hard mode REQUIRES you to use the letters you’ve already correctly guessed – it makes it harder to narrow down words by guessing things you know are wrong but which eliminate more possibilities.
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