Anyway, as with all successes, a smorgasbord of alternatives and clones has appeared in the last few months. I should know, I made three of them. And some of them are genuinely brilliant. The idea of a combative Wordle still tickles me, and I love Absurdle as a result. They all have...
The thing about the English language is the uneven distribution of letters used in words. The letterEis used more frequently thanX, for example. So if we can generate words with the most common letters, we’re more likely to get Wordle to match some or all the characters in the word. So...