The AI chatbot ChatGPT can do many things, but its inability to solve Wordle explains parts of its programming.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Wordle
Displaying all articles
Whether you want to win with as few guesses as possible, or you just want to figure out the right word before running out of turns, a scholar offers some tips.
For the news publisher, the key word is ‘subscribers’.
Certain letters appear more frequently in words so starting with this one increases your chances of getting more correct letters on your first go.
This deceptively simple online word guessing game has captured the English-speaking world.
Like a Scrabble habit, a passion for Wordle isn’t likely to make you smarter or ward off brain aging. But it may give you a daily dose of complex cognition combined with social interaction.
Wordle has become an obsession online, with over 3 million daily players around the world. But the game has more in common with code-breaking than it does with crosswords.
Top contributors
-
Lecturer, Computer Science, University of Hull
-
Associate Professor in Medieval Literature and Language, Flinders University
-
Professor of Psychology, Western University
-
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL
-
Senior Lecturer in Future Media, Creativity and Innovation, Birmingham City University
-
Professor of Finance, George Mason University
-
Established Professor of Computer Science, University of Galway
