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5 bits would be a weird size for a word.

I don’t think the parent’s argument would change if he had made an 8-bit Wordle.

Knuth's "Art of Programming" had a hypothetical machine with 5-bit words.

Baudotle

Reminds me of the idea of analogue cheese - fake cheese. It's analogue cheese until you get some on your fingers, when it becomes digital cheese.

It's not Wordle because because it's only 5 bits. There are no remotely common 5-bit word systems.