Download the repo
git clone git@github.com:bmsnook/wordle.git
cd wordle
and then either run the program in Docker
docker build -f Dockerfile-awk -t wordle-awk .
docker run -it wordle-awk
or
docker build -f Dockerfile-pycli -t wordle-pycli .
docker run -it wordle-pycli
or just run it at the command line
./wordle.awk
or
./wordle.py
(The reason I use Dockerfile-awk is because I envision future versions in other languages and I don't know that I'd necessarily want to start them all at the same time, so I anticipate future use of Dockerfile-python and Dockerfile-java, for instance)
If you receive an error while building to the effect of "site couldn't be verified", you likely have a MITM device decrypting outbound traffic and it is returning a certificate path that the Docker container doesn't recognize. The workaround is to copy the local cacerts file your browser uses to recognize internal/corporate sites to LOCAL-CACERTS.pem and then use the file Dockerfile-awk-MITM instead of Dockerfile-awk to build (actually, the MITM file should work for either use case, since it uses a wildcard to copy the file and will silently fail if the file is not found locally, but I didn't want to clutter the file for basic use cases).
For example:
docker build -f Dockerfile-awk-MITM -t wordle-awk .
docker run -it wordle-awk
I've generated/downloaded wordlists two different ways. Feel free to use the included wordlists (in the wordlists directory) or generate/find your own.
First, I generated a wordlist from the aspell dictionary on Linux. I can't claim credit for the aspell commands, which I found here:
[https://superuser.com/questions/137957/how-to-convert-aspell-dictionary-to-simple-list-of-words]
I did write a script to massage the data to be usable for Wordle. Please see the script mkwords.sh
Second, I used the following page
[https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/want-to-up-your-wordle-game-the-winning-word-is-right-on-the-page]
for inspiration in finding the script page used to store the wordlists. I wrote an awk script to download and digest the wordlist in case it changes in the future. Please see the script get_nyt_wordlists.awk
Feel free to edit or use your own wordlists!
I realize the current notation for differentiating unguessed/wrong/misplaced/correct letters is somewhat abysmal. I've played around with using lowercase for unselected letters, but I didn't like it much better. Although I mostly wrote this as a scripting/programming exercise, and a framework to port over to Python for learning, I'm open to suggestions/feedback if anyone else actually finds and plays this.
Of course, for the real experience of Wordle, you should check out the NYT version online
https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
and/or download one of the multiple versions available on device app stores.