Note

I recommend to use the code at woctezuma/3b1b-wordle-solver, which is much faster!

Wordle Bot

This repository contains Python code to solve Wordle puzzles by maximizing entropy.

Requirements

• Install the latest version of Python 3.X.
• Install the required packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

To compute the optimal first guess, choose the game with --game-name:

python wordle.py --game-name wordle

python wordle.py --game-name dungleon

A pre-computed first guess can be specified with --first-guess:

python wordle.py --game-name wordle --first-guess soare

python wordle.py --game-name dungleon --first-guess ZOCFS

NB: the "ZOCFS" guess in Dungleon corresponds to 🧟👹💰🐸💀.

Alternatively, run wordle-bot.ipynb

Results

Using 3Blue1Brown's code with priors=get_true_wordle_prior(), suggested first guesses for Dungleon are:

• ZOCFS🧟👹💰🐸💀 (purely_maximize_information)
• CEBSF 💰🟡🦇💀🐸 (optimize_for_uniform_distribution)
• ZOCFS🧟👹💰🐸💀 (look_two_ahead=False)
• ZBCFS 🧟🦇💰🐸💀 (look_two_ahead=True)
• AWOCS🏹🤺👹💰💀 (if only seen solutions are considered)

My adaptation of GillesVandewiele's code would suggest:

• VZCFS👨‍🌾🧟💰🐸💀 (guesses constrained to the set of solutions)
• ZOCFS🧟👹💰🐸💀 (unconstrained guesses)

For reference, TylerGlaiel's code would suggest:

• MGCFS🧙‍♀️👺💰🐸💀 (guesses constrained to the set of solutions)
• ZOCFS🧟👹💰🐸💀 (unconstrained guesses)

References

• 3Blue1Brown, Solving Wordle using information theory, posted on Youtube on February 6, 2022,
• 3b1b/videos: supplementary code (in Python) accompanying the aforementioned video,
• GillesVandewiele/Wordle-Bot: a solver (in Python) inspired by the video,
• TylerGlaiel/wordlebot: a solver (in C++) which uses other approaches,
• woctezuma/dungleon-bot: the application of different solvers to Dungleon.