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The main thing I want you to notice is that the higher the probability as we get to those more likely patterns, the lower the information, the fewer bits you gain. The way we measure the quality of this guess will be to take the expected value of this information. Where we go through each pattern, we say how probable is it, and then we multiply that by how many bits of information do we get. And in the example of Weary, that turns out to be 4.9 bits. 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So let me see if I can find a part here that illustrates it pretty well. Okay, here this is pretty good. Here we have two adjacent patterns that are about equally likely, but one of them we're told has 32 possible words that match it. And if we check what they are, these are those 32, which are all just very unlikely words as you scan your eyes over them. 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So a quarter as many matches, but it's about as likely. And when we pull up those matches, we can see why. Some of these are actual plausible answers like ring or wrath or wraps. To illustrate how we incorporate all that, let me pull up version two of the Wordlebot here. And there are two or three main differences from the first one that we saw. 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