A little script for playing wordle
My goofy little script for playing wordle. It actually runs really slowly at first but once you’ve added some info (e.g. which letters are green, yellow, black) it goes much faster. The reason it’s slow at first is the heuristic is expensive (see below).
There are two files:
- wordledict.py does nothing but load the list of winning words and possible words (these I just extracted from the Javascript on the site itself)
- find_cands.py uses the word lists to eliminate and score remaining viable words based on a heuristic.
The way the heuristic works is it goes letter by letter through the candidate word and goes: if this letter was yellow, how many words would be eliminated? What if it was green? What if it was black? Then