Today’s featured notebook answers three interesting questions about the viral word game sensation Wordle:

• If I win in two guesses, am I good or lucky?

• What is a guaranteed-winning strategy that I can easily memorize?

• What is a strategy that minimizes the number of guesses?

This one comes from a delightful collection of Python notebooks by Peter Norvig. Check out Peter’s pytudes site for more interesting and fun puzzle solving and learning exercises, all of which can be run on Colab.

Even if you’ve never written a line of Python, experimenting with this notebook will give you a feeling for how you can solve tricky problems using software.

Here’s the notebook: