Wordle Solver

This is just for fun 😭

Wordle is a word guessing game.

You must guess 5 letters in 6 goes. After each go, Wordle reveals the following:

• 🟩 Letter is present in the word, and it's in the correct place!
• 🟨 Letter is present in the word, but it's in the wrong place.
• ⬛️ Letter is not in the word.

This CLI tool takes a guess, and provides possible answers.

How to use

Searching for patterns

./scripts/search { SEARCH PATTERN } — Searches dictionary for pattern

For the search pattern, use letters A-Z with _ for blanks; e.g. GU_G_.

Making guesses:

./scripts/search B_A_H

Response:

🔍 Found 4 possibilities for: [B _ A _ H]
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BEACH
BEATH
BRACH
BRASH

Making guesses with missing letters:

./scripts/search B_A_H --missing C D

Response:

🔍 Found 2 possibilities for: [B _ A _ H] without [C,D]
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BEATH
BRASH

Making guesses including letters without placing:

./scripts/search B_A_H --including C

Response:

🔍 Found 2 possibilities for: [B _ A _ H]
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BEACH
BRACH

Building

Running in Docker:

./scripts/bootstrap — Starts required Docker containers

Dictionary source

This tool uses Project Gutenberg: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, However it's not committed to this repo.
To obtain the source, download the plain text version at the following URL Unabridged Dictionary Plain Text, and add the file to ./data/dictionary.txt

Or use the following command:

curl https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29765.txt.utf-8 --output ./data/dictionary.txt