oldfartdeveloper / wordle-solver

An aid to playing Wordle

Wordle Solver

In process

How to Use this Program

wordle-solver is a command line program that captures the word guesses a player enters and gives you a list of the words matching the guesses.

Let's play a game:

1st Guess: "ATONE"

The game is showing that the 'T' is present in the correct word, but that it will not be found in column 2.

Hence, modify the code in src/Main.purs as follows:

userInput :: UserInput
userInput = UserInput
  { plays:
      """
      ATONE
      """
  , found: "....."
  , other:
      [ Tuple 2 'T'
      ]
  }

Run the program in the terminal:

spago run > doc/playedGames/output1.txt

Out of the almost 5,000 words in the available 5-char per word list, only 165 are candidates.

output1.txt

2nd Guess: "BUILD"

Add the "BUILD" to the plays and the tuples for the 'I' that is not in column 3 and the 'L' that is not in column 4.

Hence, modify the code in src/Main.purs as follows:

userInput :: UserInput
userInput = UserInput
  { plays:
      """
      ATONE
      BUILD
      """
  , found: "....."
  , other:
      [ Tuple 2 'T'
      , Tuple 3 'I'
      , Tuple 4 'L'
      ]
  }

Run the program in the terminal:

spago run > doc/playedGames/output2.txt

Out of the almost 5,000 words in the available 5-char per word list, now only 15 are candidates.

output2.txt

3rd Guess: "SPLIT"

When scanning the output, I noticed that "SPLIT" was the only word that didn't have an "I" in the 2nd column so I guessed that one. So I modified the code to

1. Add "SPLIT" to plays.
2. Add two more tuples indicating that 'I' and 'L' are not in their respective positions either.
3. And, this is new, specify that the answer word has a 'T' in its column 5.

Note: 'T' is reassigned to a fix position when "SPLIT" is added. This effectively replaces the assignment as an other when the first word "ATONE" was added. You don't have to remove the Tuple 2 'T' from the other` field.

Hence, modify the code in src/Main.purs as follows:

userInput :: UserInput
userInput = UserInput
  { plays:
      """
      ATONE
      BUILD
      SPLIT
      """
  , found: "....T"
  , other:
      [ Tuple 2 'T'
      , Tuple 3 'I'
      , Tuple 4 'L'
      ]
  }

Run the program in the terminal:

spago run > doc/playedGames/output3.txt

Out of the almost 5,000 words in the available 5-char per word list, now only 3 are candidates.

output3.txt

4th Guess: "LIGHT"

There are only 3 possibilities left.

My gut said that "LIGHT" is the right answer, so I specified that. And, lo, it was a lucky guess.

The puzzle is solved.