This is a python script I threw together to algorithmically solve games of wordle.

Some may call this cheating. To that I say it certainly attempts to be more effective than human memory of words, but also you can just look up the answer on google, which is even less educational.

Coincidentally, the literal day after I wrote this, 3blue1brown posted a video that goes into way more math and essentially does the same thing as this script, but obviously way better since I hacked this together in a few hours.

1. Check which wordlist is being used in the script (its around lke 42). See the wordlists section below for the possible options.
2. run python3 wordlebuster.py
3. enter the word it tells you to as your wordle guess and then type in the result into the script by entering a 5 character string of C X or M to represent Correct, eXcluded, or Misplaced letters.
4. the script will give you another word to try.
5. repeat. typing in CCCCC (or stopping it early with Ctrl-C) will cause the script to exit.

I havent tested this as thoroughly or with as many fancy simulations as 3blue1brown did, but it seems to do pretty well (3-4 rows) most of the time.

This script comes with a couple different wordlists:

• wordle_solutions is the short (~2k words) list of all the words that could possibly be wordle answers. some consider this cheating.
• wordle_all is the wordle_solutions list combined with the other list of valid words (~13k words) from the wordle source code
• wordmaster is the wordlist from the source code of the open source word-master app that was also used for testing because of the lack of a 1-puzzle daily limit
• all_words is a (deduplicated) combination of all of the above lists if you want the most generic possible experience

there are definitely more wordlists/datasets that can be added. If you add any, please feel free to make a contribution.

While developing this, I found a number of wordle clones that may be useful:

• https://github.com/lynn/hello-wordl
• https://github.com/octokatherine/word-master
• https://nerdlegame.com/
• https://qntm.org/absurdle

There is also an android pattern lock version of the game and an awesomelist for wordle already.