Wordle.jl

Do you love Wordle? Do you live in the Julia REPL? Well now you can play Wordle in your REPL!

What is Wordle?

Wordle is a daily word guessing game where the objective is to guess the daily, five-letter "wordle" within six guesses. Each time you make a guess, you are given the following feedback:

• Letters that are in the correct position will be highlighted in green;
• Letters that are in the wordle but not in the correct position are highlighted in yellow;
• And, the rest are highlighted in gray.

Here are the instructions from the game:

The game went viral as friends would compete with each other to see who could guess the wordle with the fewest number of guesses.

Fetching the Word Lists

It turns out that the full lists of valid words and wordles can be found in the game source code. Once extracted, we will be able to use these lists of words to do all sorts of fun stuff. Each time you load the package using Wordle, we download the list of words and only keep the ones that have been seen before (include today's; beware!).

However, we should take care in the way we do this extraction to avoid spoilers. Ideally, the code we write to do this extraction requires no explicit knowledge of past or future wordles. In this way, no wordles are specifically "hard-coded" into the extraction routines.

Getting Started

At the moment, this package hasn't been published yet, but you can still play around with it!

julia> ] add https://github.com/jowch/Wordle.jl.git

Usage

Play the daily Wordle

julia> game = WordleGame()
Wordle 231 0/6

Play past Wordles

julia> game = WordleGame(1)
Wordle 1 0/6

Play with your own word

julia> game = WordleGame("words")
Wordle 0/6

julia> guess!(game, "bored")
Wordle 1/6

⬛️🟩🟩⬛️🟨

julia> print_available_letters(game)
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
⬜⬛️⬜🟨⬛️⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜

Advanced Usage

The list of all valid words is also provided within this package for "research" purposes.

julia> Wordle.VALID_WORD_LIST
10657-element Vector{String}:
 ⋮
 # no spoilers!

julia> Wordle.WORDLE_LIST
231-element Vector{String}:
 ⋮
 # also no spoilers!