Wordle Machine (and Wordle Game) (in commandline)

My implementation of the Wordle game (inspired by https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/) and my interactive solving machine for the Wordle game. The strategy is originated from this blog post Best Wordle Strategy — Explore or Exploit and I'm still working on some optimization over that.

How to run?

shell git clone https://github.com/KevinXuxuxu/wordle_machine.git cd wordle_machine

• Wordle game: ```shell

need python 3

! for correct letter at correct position

? for correct letter at wrong position

_ for wrong letter

$ python3.9 wordle.py
Welcome to Wordle! Guess 1: aeros # <- your input Result: !__! Guess 2: unlit # <- your input Result: ____? Guess 3: techs # <- your input Result: ?!?! Guess 4: heets # <- your input Guess must be a proper word with 5 letters! Guess 4: hetts # <- your input Guess must be a proper word with 5 letters! Guess 4: herts # <- your input Guess must be a proper word with 5 letters! Guess 4: hetes # <- your input Result: !!!!! Congrats! ```

• wordle machine (interactive mode) ```shell

need python 3

next guess is given, input the response in same format

$ python3.9 wordle_machine.py Interactive mode: Guess 1: aeros Result: ?___ # <- your input Number of possible words: 568 Guess 2: unlit Result: ?? # <- your input Number of possible words: 52 Guess 3: binge Result: !!! # <- your input Number of possible words: 7 Guess 4: jinne Result: !!! # <- your input Number of possible words: 6 Guess 5: mince Result: _!!!! # <- your input Number of possible words: 2 Guess 6: wince Result: !!!!! # <- your input Congrats! ```

Benchmark

Success rate around 86% for now. shell $ python3.9 benchmark.py max 6 guesses, 10000 plays Success stats: {1: 0, 2: 1, 3: 1674, 4: 3382, 5: 2332, 6: 1228} Success distro: {1: 0.0, 2: 0.0001, 3: 0.1674, 4: 0.3382, 5: 0.2332, 6: 0.1228} Failed count and rate: 1383 0.1383

TODO

• Better word choosing strategy (now just the first word in the possible list)
• Better cmd option for alternate strategy choice
• NFT?
• Web 3.0?