wordle

Small set of scripts to "solve" wordle, so you dont have to play it if you don't want to

• originally made this with my dad during christmas break '21 when wordle first went viral
• revisited it when Gurur and I started playing together

See also

• 3Blue1Brown video
• the official WordleBot

Though we beat both to publishing, despite no citations 😵‍💫

Basic idea

The potential scores of a guess g induces a partitioning over the set of possible solutions E

• given the score, E can be updated to all words in E that could yield that score

The "best" (greedy) g is the one whose score induces a maximum entropy partitioning over E

• I think this might be a shortest-path DP type problem, but the greedy case seems to work quite well
• IIRC the 3Blue1Brown video or a follow up explores this

Setup

If you want to play, the first guess is the most computationally intensive and should be cached before hand.

• The scripts might assume that you use my first guess, slate

In either case, run python ./cache.py FIRST_GUESS

Then you can run python ./play.py [SOLUTION]

• you can play "in real time" if you dont have the solution
• if you have the solution, this just makes it so the score is computed automatically