A Spanish data scientist’s strategy to win 99% of the time at Wordle

Article in the Spanish newspaper El País about my analysis of how to play (and win) Wordle exploiting the statistical biases in the game

A Spanish data scientist’s strategy to win 99% of the time at Wordle

Esteban Moro has created an algorithm to solve the trending online game that has hundreds of thousands of people around the world in its thrall

Esteban Moro, a professor, researcher and data scientist at Madrid’s Carlos III University and visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has sought a scientific answer to this question. In an article published on his blog, he described a strategy that would solve 99% of the 206 challenges posed so far by Wordle in less than six steps, although this method cannot be applied to other versions of the game, such as those that have been circulating in Spanish and even Galician.