George V. Reilly

Exploring Wordle

Unless YOUVE LIVED UNDER ROCKS, you've heard of Wordle, the online word game that has become wildly popular since late 2021. You've probably seen people posting their Wordle games as grids of little green, yellow, and black (or white) emojis on social media.

Wordle 797 4/6

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🟨 ⬛ 🟩 ⬛ ⬛
⬛ ⬛ 🟩 🟨 ⬛
🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩

The problem that I want to address in this post is:

Given some GUESS=SCORE pairs for Wordle and a word list, pro­gram­mat­i­cal­ly find all the words from the list that are eligible as answers.

Let's look at this four-round game for Wordle 797:

continue.
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