A new word game is an interesting phenomenon. Are you a regular “Wordle” player? We tried it the other day, and see why it’s addictive. But it seems to us, a lot relies on that first five letter word guess you make.
And so we decided to try to help out, at least in English, by accessing the macOS and Linux dictionary resources, and add in a “weirdness score”, the scoring for which we adopt a “Scrabble stance”. Interested? Try start_word_for_wordle_helper.php‘s live run, or below …
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