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KevinXuxuxu
wordle_machine
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KevinXuxuxu / wordle_machine

wordle_machine

commandline version of wordle game (https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/), and my auto solver.

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commandline version of wordle game (https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/), and my auto solver.

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Correction: I thought this was script to solve Wordle puzzles, so I provided a cheat helper below. At first blush, I thought the idea was for the human to feed this script information back from Wordle so it could improve its guesses. Sigh Also, you really need better names for your methods and variables, starting with this bit here: https://github.com/KevinXuxuxu/wordle_machine/blob/64a8534ad... As you think about a better way to name those, you will realize it is possible to do this in a much less convoluted way. Hmmm, I have been using this Perl script: #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use feature 'say'; my @words = grep # Add conditions below !/^[A-Z]/, grep length == 5, map split, do { local $/; <> }; say for @words Invoke it from the command line with your word list.
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I've been lazy, so I use `./wg /usr/share/dict/words` which means way more options than a more tailored word list would give which means I am only cheating a little. So, for example, I type "amber" as my first move and I am told "e" is in the wrong spot and none of the other letters match, I update the selection using that information: my @words = grep # Add conditions below !/^...e/ && /e/ && !/[ambr]/ && !/^[A-Z]/, grep length == 5, map split, do { local $/; <> };
In Show HN: Simple Wordle solver in command line in Python

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