Uploaded August 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Five words. Twenty-five letters. Can you find them? That's the Q.

I'm not sure I mentioned this enough, but I have a podcast and it caused this video. Search for "A Problem Squared" wherever you get podcasts and you shall find. aproblemsquared.libsyn.com

Get ALL THE WORDS as "words_alpha.txt" here: github.com/dwyl/english-words

Here is the vastly superior code that Benjamin sent in: gitlab.com/bpaassen/five_clique

My tweet here: twitter.com/standupmaths/status/1549343218407456769

Against my better judgement, I have put my code on github: github.com/standupmaths/fiveletterworda

You can also see me talk about two lines of the code over on the second channel. youtu.be/kx2sT87Ah0I

I downloaded the Wordle words from here:
reddit.com/r/wordle/comments/s4tcw8/a_note_on_wordles_word_list
gist.github.com/cfreshman/a03ef2cba789d8cf00c08f767e0fad7b#file-wordle-answers-alphabetical-txt
gist.github.com/cfreshman/cdcdf777450c5b5301e439061d29694c

3blue1brown video about Wordle: youtube.com/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA&ab_channel=3Blue1Brown

Cheers to my Patreons for motivating me to film a thing from the podcast as a quick youtube video. And helping me justify to Lucie why I need to film a thing while we are "on holidays". patreon.com/standupmaths

CORRECTIONS
- Nothing yet. Let me know if you spot any mistakes!

That is all! Stop reading the description and go do a better job coding this challenge yourself.

Original question from Daniel Bingham
Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash
Additional filming by Matt Parker
Beer by some hotel in Athens
Music by Howard Carter
Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson
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