Two young CS researchers took part in the competition after building their home-made algorithm (I suppose based on tree search) to find optimal words to search for, given the constraints. They learnt these optimal words/paths by heart before the show.
They never lost a game. Opponents scores were embarrassingly low, they actually broke the game. It was also very funny to watch because they spelled words that most people didn't know they exist.
I'll edit if I can find a video link (which is surprisingly struggling).
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And a TV show in France called Motus since forever.
Exactly, you can search "motus france 2" on youtube and you'll see the tv show that existed for decades in france.
In France, there is a TV show called Motus which is basically the same as Wordle but with 8-letter words (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motus_(jeu_t%C3%A9l%C3%A9vis%C3%A9))
Two young CS researchers took part in the competition after building their home-made algorithm (I suppose based on tree search) to find optimal words to search for, given the constraints. They learnt these optimal words/paths by heart before the show.
They never lost a game. Opponents scores were embarrassingly low, they actually broke the game. It was also very funny to watch because they spelled words that most people didn't know they exist.
I'll edit if I can find a video link (which is surprisingly struggling).