This wordle solver is meant to be run once for each guess. The program tells you what to guess in turn you feed it the clues and it will tell you what to guess next.
if you guess WEARY and the W is in the right spot put a + (plus) the response as
+W_E_A_R_Y
if you guess PILLS and the letter I is in the word but in the wrong spot encode it with - (minus) like
_P-I_L_L_S
for all the letters that aren't in the word you prefix with an _ (underscore)
once the input.txt is saved run the program to get the next guess.
./wordle.py
for the first guess it might take up to 20 seconds to go through the possibilities.
after you've found a solution add it to the history.txt. it won't be included in computations or guesses after that.
Running the program with an empty input.txt takes a long time. I've precomputed the output in first.txt
if you run the script with one (five letter word) argument.
./wordle.py first
it will evaluate that as a starting guess for all possible mystery words.
Probably wonder what that number is after the guess. The way the program ranks guess is very slow but luckly the number of words is usually small (in the 100s) so it only takes a few seconds.
The program imagines a universe where every word is the correct answer and you guess all words and you get a clue. Add up how many, of all words, that clue eliminates. for the geeks out there it’s O(n^3)
- easy mode solver: when to switch to choosing a word that you know isn't going to be the answer?
- always on the second guess.
- if your in danger of losing. for example you know
__+a__+e+r. that only leaves you two letters to eleminate 29 possibilities in three or four guesses.