> It seems clear to me that there is an optimal starting word, but that the best second word has to depend on the info you gain from the first.
Definitely. The likelihood of a letter appearing in a given place changes depending on the letters around it. A Q will almost always be followed with a U, for example.
I wrote a script yesterday which spits out the relative probabilities of possible letters in each unknown position, given the current known/excluded letters -- it was interesting to see the effect in action.
Definitely. The likelihood of a letter appearing in a given place changes depending on the letters around it. A Q will almost always be followed with a U, for example.
I wrote a script yesterday which spits out the relative probabilities of possible letters in each unknown position, given the current known/excluded letters -- it was interesting to see the effect in action.