On March 27, 2023, the New York Times broke my Wordle Solver.
Specifically, they added a word not part of the 2,315 possible answers the original game allowed. The new word they added was GUANO, which amused me as a metaphor for introducing an unexpected new word.
To account for this change, I’ve updated the code for the solver to make it work for all 12,972 allowed guess words.
Now, when starting with the word SALET it solves for all possible words in 52,753 guesses, or 4.07 on average (Distribution 1: 1, 2: 51, 3: 2431, 4: 7365, 5: 2860, 6: 251, 7: 13). This is not as strong as before but suspect it is pretty close to the best possible solution.