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Yes 3blue1brown made a series of videos which explains it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRed0Xmc2Wg .

Also same exact name as the paper?

It's not clear how the strategy in the article differs from the one used by Wordle Bot, the analysis/feedback system that Wordle links to on the victory screen at the end of the game: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/upshot/wordle-bot.h...

The first page of the published paper ( https://orb.binghamton.edu/nejcs/vol8/iss1/6/ ) also claims that the game was developed by "Josh Wordle", so maybe it just isn't the highest-quality scholarship in the world.

> also claims that the game was developed by "Josh Wordle",

To be fair, that is a 1 letter typo; the developer is in fact "Josh Wardle".

I had wondered if getting wordle in 1 based on social media data was possible! Now I know.