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There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)

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728 points squircle | 1 comments | 12 Aug 24 13:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.417s | source
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1-more ◴[12 Aug 24 15:45 UTC] No.41225768[source]▶
Qntm is also the author of - Hatetris: Tetris where the computer gives you the worst possible next piece https://qntm.org/files/hatetris/hatetris.html

- Absurdle: Wordle where the computer narrows down (as little as possible) to a solution word as you guess https://qntm.org/files/absurdle/absurdle.html

- "All I want for Christmas is a negative leap second" https://qntm.org/leap

- "It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code" https://qntm.org/clean

Interesting cat!

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airstrike ◴[12 Aug 24 20:14 UTC] No.41228804[source]▶
Absurdle was a lot of fun! I was thinking the "share score" thing does show a score of "n/∞" which I guess is supposed to mean the game could keep going for an indefinite length... but someone smarter than me can likely prove what the upper bound is in the general case or in the case of your opening word, both of which are definitely going to be lower than ∞
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1. SamBam ◴[13 Aug 24 01:59 UTC] No.41231429[source]▶
There are only about 2300 words in regular Wordle's dictionary, which makes a pretty obvious ceiling. We can shrink that further by picking a starting word like TRACE, because the largest possible group the also could fall into after that is just 350. You could then keep going with that analysis.