Oh, wait, actually the best Wordle opener is not “crane”…

Following up on the Worlde-solver (https://youtu.be/v68zYyaEmEA), discussing a minor bug and more details about how the best first word was chosen. Special thanks to these supporters: https://3b1b.co/lessons/wordle#thanks Help fund future projects: https://www.patreon.com/3blue1brown An equally valuable form of support is to simply share the videos. Contents: 0:00 - The Bug 3:31 - How the best first guess is chosen 8:54 - Does this ruin the game? Nice post by Jonathan Olson on optimal wordle algorithms: https://jonathanolson.net/experiments/optimal-wordle-solutions More on optimal strategies: http://sonorouschocolate.com/notes/index.php?title=The_best_strategies_for_Wordle Code for this video: https://github.com/3b1b/videos/tree/master/_2022/wordle These animations are largely made using a custom python library, manim. See the FAQ comments here: https://www.3blue1brown.com/faq#manim https://github.com/3b1b/manim https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/ You can find code for specific videos and projects here: https://github.com/3b1b/videos/ Music by Vincent Rubinetti. https://www.vincentrubinetti.com/ Download the music on Bandcamp: https://vincerubinetti.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-3blue1brown Stream the music on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1dVyjwS8FBqXhRunaG5W5u ------------------ 3blue1brown is a channel about animating math, in all senses of the word animate. And you know the drill with YouTube, if you want to stay posted on new videos, subscribe: http://3b1b.co/subscribe Various social media stuffs: Website: https://www.3blue1brown.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/3blue1brown Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/3blue1brown Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/3blue1brown_animations/ Patreon: https://patreon.com/3blue1brown Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/3blue1brown