Yeah, Gradle’s grades are bogus. Gradle only compares how effective your guess was against the current puzzle solution, and that highly depends on luck. A starting word only scores an A+ if it narrows the today’s answer to 5 possibilities or less.
It should be grading you based on that word’s average performance against every puzzle solution you haven’t eliminated yet. The optimal play should always award an A+, and everything else should scale compared to how the optimal play did. Someday I’ll have to make a Gradle clone that does this.
If you pay a garbage starting word like MAMMA and it happens to win the puzzle in 1/6, it should still give you an F because it was a terrible idea.
Yeah, Gradle’s grades are bogus. Gradle only compares how effective your guess was against the current puzzle solution, and that highly depends on luck. A starting word only scores an A+ if it narrows the today’s answer to 5 possibilities or less.
It should be grading you based on that word’s average performance against every puzzle solution you haven’t eliminated yet. The optimal play should always award an A+, and everything else should scale compared to how the optimal play did. Someday I’ll have to make a Gradle clone that does this.
If you pay a garbage starting word like MAMMA and it happens to win the puzzle in 1/6, it should still give you an F because it was a terrible idea.
I think your second para nails the use case.
Of the first guesses how did I do? Of the possible second guesses based on hard mode rules and the feedback how did I do?
I could guess it in 2, but get a poor grade because it thinks my first guess sucks.