A bot that plays a Wordle clone. This bot plays a slight variation, only using the possible answers, not the guessable words. Additionally, it plays on "hard mode," meaning yellow and green letters must appear in the next guess.
After playing 50,000 games, it able to correctly guess the word within 6 tries 95% of the time. It takes an average of 4.48 guesses to solve the word.
After running a trial through each possible word, starting with SALON resulted in the fewest average guesses to solve, at 4.38.