Solving Wordle using information theory

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An excuse to teach a lesson on information theory and entropy. These lessons are funded by viewers: https://www.patreon.com/3blue1brown Special thanks to these supporters: https://3b1b.co/lessons/wordle#thanks An equally valuable form of support is to simply share the videos. Contents: 0:00 - What is Wordle? 2:43 - Initial ideas 8:04 - Information theory basics 18:15 - Incorporating word frequencies 27:49 - Final performance Original wordle site: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/ Music by Vincent Rubinetti. https://www.vincentrubinetti.com/ Shannon and von Neumann artwork by Kurt Bruns. https://www.instagram.com/p/CZpRKhMJnD6/ 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/ Thanks to these viewers for their contributions to translations German: Thadaeus, styrix560, wolfsgier ------------------ 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