This Bot Can Tell You How Good You Really Are at Wordle

How to use WordleBot

First, solve todays puzzle, and then visitthis link.

It will guide you through the process.

If you want an analysis of an older puzzle or somebody elses puzzle, take a screenshot.

(After you solve a puzzle, the Wordle stats screen will pop up.

Hit the x and then screenshot the grid.

Then, swipe through the result screens.

The first one gives you an overall score for skill and for luck.

The rest step through your guesses, and the bot compares what choicesyoumade to whatitwould have done.

The bot cheats, by the way.

On the other hand, at least the bot doesnt know which puzzles have already been published.

The bot has not been given this guidance.

The bot, smug bastard that it is, says it would have solved it in two.

(It starts with CRANE.)

I got an overall skill rating of 93.

My third guess, then, was lucky.

I ran staff writer Sarah Showfetys solution through the bot next.

His opener brought the possible solutions to just 9, and after CLAMP he was down to just one.

It liked my starter, BOGUS, and my follow-up, PARSE.

But after that, the little bot was just shaking its head at my bad guesses.

I actually had it narrowed down to just four possibilities at that point.

So what did we learn?

Among other things, we got our starters graded.

CRANE is the bots pick; it liked Joels STERN and Sarahs ROUTE.

All of these willon averagenarrow down the pool to somewhere between 90 to 100 possibilities.

(That number can be higher or lower, though, depending on what the days actual solution is.

Sometimes youre just unlucky.)

So go ahead and ask the bot how it thinks you did.

You might be mad about the answers, but youll probably learn something.