Interesting.
The word list / dictionary provided by the site only had around 170k lines so it must not be a complete version.
I would guess they have excluded some obscure words. I can't see anywhere in the information which dictionary is used.
The word list / dictionary provided by the site only had around 170k lines so it must not be a complete version.
I would guess they have excluded some obscure words. I can't see anywhere in the information which dictionary is used.
That bumps the math to log₂(279,498) ≈ 18.1, so 19 guesses in the worst case and about 18 on average with perfect play