Game 07 · Engine · measures: information
Entropy Wordle
The usual game, priced in bits. After every guess you see how much information you actually extracted, what the best available guess would have extracted, and the regret between them.
The answer is fixed by the page seed — share the link and someone plays the same word.
Information ledger
No guesses yet. Every row prices a guess in bits against the solver's best.
How it works
Before a guess there are N candidate words left; after it there are M. You gained log₂(N/M) bits. The solver scores every word in the list by the entropy of the colour pattern it would produce across the current candidate set — −Σ p log₂ p over the 3⁵ possible patterns — and plays the maximum. That is the machine number: the bits you could have had. The list here is trimmed to a few hundred common words so the exhaustive scan runs in a frame; the algorithm is unchanged at full scale, it just wants a worker.