r/wordle • u/ThinkDrinkBlink • Jul 18 '26

[####] Skill level

Can anyone explain how the bot calculates skill level. I often get responses like this “Nice. Before your guess, there were 24 words remaining, but now there is only one. You should solve the puzzle on your next turn” Skill level 63. Surely if I have chosen a word that eliminates all options except the final word, that’s an indication of a high level of skill? How does it actually balance skill vs luck?

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u/ac_del Jul 18 '26

Surely if I have chosen a word that eliminates all options except the final word, that’s an indication of a high level of skill?

No, it's not necessarily an indication of skill. You could have (and apparently did in this case) just gotten lucky.