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Aug 17, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
remember wordlebot? today we're unveiling wordlebot 2.0, now with new features, a new algorithm, and fancy new sneakers nytimes.com/interactive/20…
the first version of the bot used the list of 2,309 wordle solutions to judge your gameplay. bot 2.0 is different — it uses its own dictionary of about 4,500 words, assigning each a probability of being a solution
Apr 7, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Introducing WordleBot, our daily Wordle companion — it'll take your Wordle every day and rate you on your Wordle skills.
To use it, first play Wordle. Then visit this link: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
WordleBot will analyze your guesses and give you a rating for luck and another for efficiency
Wordle 292 3/6*
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Efficiency 95/100
Luck 62/100
Jul 27, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Some people argued that we should have used opacity or a dot map to adjust for population density in our 2016 precinct maps. fwiw, here's why we didn't... nytimes.com/interactive/20…
We weren't interested in exploring who got the most votes -- we already know who did. The election was 21 months ago... we felt like we didn't need another tally of the popular vote.