WordleBot analyzes Wordle to help you play better

The New York Times has been owned by Wordle Since January has developed a tool that analyzes solutions to the viral game. Using statistics — math! — the WordleBot tool scores your completed Wordle solutions “for luck and skill on a scale from 0 to 99,” according to the company. It’ll then use that information to tell you how you could have improved your solutions to solve WordleIn as few words possible According to the New York Times, it CouldYou can improve your playing ability.

You can access it through your web browser just as Wordle. First, you’ll need to play WordleYou can then visit WordleBot using the same device. It’ll find your most recent WordlePull it up. (If it doesn’t you can also upload a screenshot of your completed board.) The tool will display some statistics. Next, the tool will run through all your guesses row-by-row to calculate how many of your solutions were missed.

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These words are ranked with a score of 0 to 99 in skill and luck. It also shows you which word is the fastest for solving the puzzle. To dig into more math, you can increase the stats.

WordleBot could improve your statistical analysis if you listen to it. The New York Times also said you can use it as a “tiebreaker” in your group chats with family — a way to prove who is actually the best Wordle player.

“We hope the bot’s advice will help you think about Wordle more analytically, which will help you get better at solving the puzzles in the long run,” Josh Katz and Matthew Conlen wrote on The New York Times. “In addition, it may serve as a tiebreaker of sorts for those of you involved in competitive text chains with friends and family. WordleBot could give bragging rights to those who answered a Wordle faster than their friends even though it took them five turns. It will also tell you if you were just unlucky and did everything correctly. We’ll leave it to you to decide which is more important.”

You can read more about WordleBot here Works to analyse WordleThe New York Times offers a detailed explanation.