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Re:The New York Times buys Wordle by bee_rider on Monday January 31, 2022 @06:40PM (#30156465)
I wonder, for a person who was posting their Wordle solutions to Facebook, Twitter and Discord under accounts that they were trying to keep separate, how many posts it would take to uniquely identify somebody. It must be only a handful, at most.

Anyway, that's a pretty constructed scenario, but it is sorta interesting to think about.

In any case -- fortunately it is NYT, so I bet they'll happily just let it go to a nice stable daily crossword sized population and stick there indefinitely without messing it up. Maybe they can add a 6-wordle for subscribers.

Re:The New York Times buys Wordle by rtkwe on Monday January 31, 2022 @09:34PM (#30157922)
A single day holds at an absolute maximum of 3^30 different combinations but in practice it's probably much less than that because people converge to more green boxes (generally) as they guess more. I'd bet by 3 days though you've provided a unique set of answers.
Re:The New York Times buys Wordle by bee_rider on Monday January 31, 2022 @09:42PM (#30157984)
That's the ballpark I was thinking, too. The only wrench I can think of that might get thrown into it -- there are some known popular starters and popular guessing styles. If you go for, say, ARISE and then hunt vowels, I bet the number of collisions could be strung along a bit longer.