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There are a few things that I think would be really interesting to do with this data:

1. Provide a different scoring mechanism. Number of guesses is a bit simplistic. I'd like to see something where blank squares are 2 points, yellow are 1 point, and green is 0. Then a total score could be computed across all guesses, with the goal being the least number of points. It would incentivize "hard mode" I think.

2. Provide a difficulty rating of the daily word based on average number of guesses

3. Given a "spoiler free" answer, make a game out of guessing what the original player guessed.



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