Here's an interesting Wordle thought experiment. Imagine if you're playing Wordle and someone is looking over your shoulder. After you choose your guess, but before you see the result, they have to try to guess what the result will be. 1/3
If they get it right, you have to give them $10. Interestingly enough, the strategy that minimizes your money loss is the exact same strategy that optimizes your Wordle play. As a simple way to see why this makes sense. 2/3
Imagine if you guess "pygmy" first. That's obviously a terrible first Wordle choice and it also is very likely to lose you $10 because they will guess all misses and be likely to be right. 3/3
An easy way to see it: To win at Wordle, you need to make guesses that give you as much information as possible. To win $10, the person guessing your result has to guess what information you're going to get.
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