(Update: my conjceture has been disproven, at least with current word lists.) Happy New Years everyone! I hope everyone can enter 2022 with some optimism. Everyone is playing Wordle. It is very cool and fun. It is basically Mastermind, the word guessing game, but with a cool interface and a software keyboard that makes it very addicting. On top of this lots of people are now playing Absurdle and Evil Wordle. In these adversarial variants, the game doesn't pick a word immediately. Instead, eve...
