A Random walk down the Wordle hole…

Have you played Wordle yet? It is a popular word guessing game that has been having a bit of a moment. It is like the old MasterMind game, but for words. You try to guess a word in six tries. After each guess, the game will score your guess, letting you know which letters in your guess are not in the word, or are in the word but at the wrong place, or are at the right place.

I have long suspected that if you simply randomly pick any valid word in Wordle on so-called “hard mode” — where you are required to use any clue previously revealed — you will always complete the…