https://www.soberlydrunkprose.com/blog daily 0.75 2026-06-24 https://www.soberlydrunkprose.com/blog/falling-up-the-staircase-a-review-of-geb-godel-escher-bach monthly 0.5 2026-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ceb0d094899d448b5d1635/b5d7a6e3-b5b1-4c01-8bde-31281dc2b1b5/Waterfall-by-M.C.Escher-Analysis.webp Nalini's Rambles - Falling Up the Staircase: A Review of GEB Godel, Escher, Bach - Make it stand out Waterfall by M.C. Escher https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ceb0d094899d448b5d1635/42da2e1e-b85b-480a-9842-d7a4de41cdad/dd2408e1e30d2fb70d485d6c35b79eb6_es-258s07.jpg Nalini's Rambles - Falling Up the Staircase: A Review of GEB Godel, Escher, Bach - The Penrose Triangle Also known as the tribar, is an impossible object. It appears to be a solid triangle made of three straight beams of square cross-section which meet at right angles. It is featured prominently in the works of artist M.C. 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(Image and description by MIT OCW) https://www.soberlydrunkprose.com/blog/the-world-of-wordle-part-1-linguistics-strategy monthly 0.5 2026-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ceb0d094899d448b5d1635/a32cdb9b-ea75-4325-9cf0-fa4aaa1ce6f9/Figure_12+vowel+economy.png Nalini's Rambles - The World of Wordle, Part 1: Linguistics Strategy - Make it stand out Figure 8: The Vowel Economy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ceb0d094899d448b5d1635/93eecf22-635a-4522-a233-f05efda0c581/Figure_20+overall+%25+heatmap.png Nalini's Rambles - The World of Wordle, Part 1: Linguistics Strategy - Make it stand out Figure 1: Position Frequency Heatmap (ALL TIME!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ceb0d094899d448b5d1635/bf71528f-e914-4a15-b5cb-65230ba477cd/Figure_8+Top+10+starting+and+ending+letters.png Nalini's Rambles - The World of Wordle, Part 1: Linguistics Strategy - Make it stand out Figure 3: Top 10 Starting and Ending Letters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ceb0d094899d448b5d1635/d140445f-643b-4fbe-9c22-6ea1e568f1f3/Figure_6+Trigram+total.png Nalini's Rambles - The World of Wordle, Part 1: Linguistics Strategy Figure 2: Top 10 most common trigram combos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ceb0d094899d448b5d1635/89b5d5ef-8842-462f-86dd-c31418a4079d/Figure_4+Heatmap+Evolution+over+the+years.png Nalini's Rambles - The World of Wordle, Part 1: Linguistics Strategy - Make it stand out Figure 6: Top 5 Trigrams by Year https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ceb0d094899d448b5d1635/185dcc56-9da0-4d99-9138-340c0a3f3ac2/Figure_10+cards+accurate.png Nalini's Rambles - The World of Wordle, Part 1: Linguistics Strategy - Make it stand out Figure 7: The Top Letters and Their Personality Cards (P.S. the yellow one is “F” sorry) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ceb0d094899d448b5d1635/9edcea9b-b164-47cf-8564-187335b5ae21/Figure+7+Average+Wordle+Difficulty+%28by+scrabble+metrics%29+over+the+years.png Nalini's Rambles - The World of Wordle, Part 1: Linguistics Strategy In 2021, the average Scrabble score was low, and double letters appeared in only 34% of words. By early 2026, double letters appear in 39.1% of words (granted, there have only by 60-ish words in 2026), and the Scrabble average has jumped to nearly 10. Figure 9: Average Scrabble Score https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ceb0d094899d448b5d1635/23489077-24ad-415c-a6a8-a12917c9163e/Figure_4+Double+Letter+over+the+years.png Nalini's Rambles - The World of Wordle, Part 1: Linguistics Strategy The 2026 dataset is small but the fact that it contains words like LINEN and MAMMA suggests that we have indeed entered the dregs of the dictionary. The Vowel Economy remains the same (still ~2 vowels), but the consonants surrounding them have become hostile. Much like the world around us. 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