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Post idea - Using PowerShell and Regular Expressions as a Wordle Solving Tool

doctorscripto opened this issue · 2 comments

Using PowerShell and Regular Expressions to solve a Wordle

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  • Are you offering to write the post [Y/N]: Y
  • Proposed title: Using PowerShell and Regular Expressions as a Wordle Solving Tool
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  • One of the most popular puzzles floating about online is "Wordle" which is a general challenge to figure out a 5 letter word using only 6 guesses. Bragging rights among your friends to solve it the fastest. The solution being shown here is using Regular Expressions and a simple solution to build out a Dynamic loop to reject all the possibilities from a 12,500 Word array to identify the most likely candidates. This solution has been successfully tested against 3 Wordle sites (US, UK and Canada) as well as Quordle (A very challenging combination of four Wordles to solve
    Giant 12,500 word array not supplied. You must assemble that yourself ;)

@doctorscripto Sounds like fun. Are you going to write this?

My regular expressions skills are simply something my brain does not allow me to master. Despite years of trying, my ability with Regex is, well, pretty lacking despite, as I say, a lot of effort. That said, this could be fun.

PordlePS?