Overlapping Words

[nirur]

Multiple wordle panels can have the same word.



As the image shows, I have covered 704 words with only 69 guesses, and multiple words are getting completed for each word I type. Avoiding this would make for a longer game that actually requires at least 1000 guesses, as the name makes one presume.

[agausmann]

Looking at the wordlist generator, there is definitely nothing stopping the same word from showing up in a problem. But also, there is a shortcut that marks wordles as solved if you correctly guessed a green in all 5 columns of the wordle, I think that is where most of these solutions are coming from.

Another thing to note, there are only about 2000 words in the master word list. So across all days, each individual word will show up in a significant fraction of them if 1000 are being picked each time. Personally, I've noticed "crass" showing up several times.

[agausmann]

It's not too difficult to implement a wordlist generator without duplicates. For example, the Durstenfeld variant of the Fisher-Yates shuffle lets you efficiently and uniformly shuffle an array in-place, and it can be pretty easily modified to pick k elements (just stop the shuffle early and take the results so far)

[briaguya-ai]

pretty sure this is just #11