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That would be trading risk for gain.

Remember, if you pick a correct letter you will not loose any guesses, in other words you get another guess if your guess is right. It's not about finding the word in a fixed number of guesses.

But otherwise you could also extend your method to increase the weight of letters appearing more than once in a word since that gives even more information gain.



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