Wordle Helper Script

What?

A small helper script written in python to assist in solving WORDLE of the day.

Why?

My colleague introduced me to the WORDLE game which is very popular now. I found it very interesting and started solving them everyday. Soon I found it harder to think of words. So I wrote this script to help me solve WORDLE everyday.

WORDLE Helper Script

Script Demo

Help Page:

Use the suggest feature to get words with specified number of vowels.

or Guess first word.

Now we know:

• Letter a is in the wordle at position 2.
• Letters h, i, r, y are not in the wordle

Run our helper script as follows to find all possible words.

[wordle] python wordle.py -w 5letter.txt -p a=2 -e hiry

Select any word from the list and enter in wordle (I chose the word taken).

We now have some additional info:

• Letters t and e are in the wordle but at wrong positions.
• Letters k and n are not in the wordle.

Run script by supplying above information as well along with previous ones.

[wordle] python wordle.py -w 5letter.txt -p a=2,t=-1,e=-4 -e hirykn
['waste', 'paste', 'caste', 'baste', 'saute', 'matte', 'easts']

• t=-1 implies letter t anywhere except 1st position
• Similarly, e=-4 implies letter e in word anywhere except 4th position

Select any word from the list and enter in wordle (I chose the word waste).

Now we know:

• Letters t and e are in correct positions (t=4, e=5)
• Letter s in wordle anywhere except 3 (s=-3)

Run script again with above info added.

[wordle] python wordle.py -w 5letter.txt -p a=2,t=4,e=5,s=-3 -e hiryknw
['saute']

We only have one word saute and it should be our wordle of the day. Lets try it out.

Lame JS hack to be a wordle Genius

JSON.parse(localStorage['nyt-wordle-state'])['solution'];

Reward

If you have reached here and is now wondering what does this post have to do with information security, nothing, absolutely nothing and for that I must apologize.