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I made a Wordle Assistant. Here’s how you can use it!

Wordle Assistant – preliminary version.

A lot of my friends on social media are playing Wordle! Wordle is a game where the users have to guess a fairly common 5 letter word in 6 attempts. Although the fun is in guessing the word, there is no harm in getting a little assistance, isn’t it? So I made a Wordle assistant, uncouth but still suggests possible words to try on Wordle. In this blog post, I would mention the boring stuff and how you can possibly use it.

The aim of the program is to not replace the user, but to assist the user with suggestions!

But first, the boring stuff…

The Wordle Assistant is mildly intelligent. It has a notebook interface and if you are not a developer, you might find it unfriendly to use, especially when the world around uses Alexa and Siri! In case you want to collaborate and make it friendlier, please send me an email?

Data: I gathered a dataset of 5-lettered words from multiple sources which include this and the word list on the Wordle site. However, on Google Colab Notebook, you would find only the Wordle list right now.

Suggestion logic: Based on the dataset, the Wordle Assistant calculates how popular letters are and suggests words that are very likely to either figure out which letters exist in the secret word OR exclude a considerable chunk of words from further consideration.

Modes: There are two modes in which this Wordle Assistant can operate.

There are several articles on the internet to tell you how to play the game. It is confusing! This is what I consider:

About Explore Mode:

How to enter the sequences to get suggestions?

Once you enter a word on Wordle, for each alphabet you would get one of the three colors: Black, Yellow, Green. To let the program know that an alphabet is marked yellow, please use “?” after the alphabet. Use “!” to tell that it is green. In case it is marked black, just let that be! Credit: I got this idea from this website.

This would be entered into the program as “ar?is?e?”

Where can you play with the code? This is the link to the Google Colab Notebook. Once you click on it, it would open on the next tab. On the options, please click on “Runtime” and “Run All”. In the end, some instructions will come. Please follow the instructions.

This is where you would find “Run all”.

Let’s watch a video to understand the playing part properly and in case you have read through the text, it is revision time!

Limitations and future work:

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