This is a harness to write bots that play wordle.
See:
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
To play against the computer:
$ python wordle.py human
To test a bot named play in my-bot.py against 100 words in sowpods_5s.txt:
$ python wordle.py bot sowpods_5s.txt my-bot.play 100
To write a bot, write a function play in a python file that takes a
string state. state looks like:
2 abcd123 adept 31221
This is guess number 2, the secret word (in this example it's "apple") has a
hash of abcd123, your last guess was adept, the first letter was correct
(indicated by a 3), the third and fourth letters are in the wrong place (2),
and the second and fifth letters do not appear in the secret word (1).
To "score" your bot:
$ python3 wordle.py bot sowpods5.txt bot-threes.play 10 | grep WORD
WORD 1 30 30 30.000000 gushy
WORD 2 26 56 28.000000 steek
WORD 3 9 65 21.666667 mosks
WORD 4 17 82 20.500000 bourn
WORD 5 23 105 21.000000 okapi
WORD 6 18 123 20.500000 randy
WORD 7 16 139 19.857143 psoas
WORD 8 37 176 22.000000 rigor
WORD 9 27 203 22.555556 clung
WORD 10 42 245 24.500000 rawly
Here bot-threes solved 10 words in 245 guesses for an average of 24.5
guesses per word. Can you do better?