Wordle

Homepage: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

Clones

• YAWDLE: Shareable puzzles. Code
• Hello Wordl: 4 to 11 letter puzzles and variable difficulty. Code
• Wordle+: Various game modes. Code
• Wordlem: 5 to 7 letter puzzles. Written in Elm. Code
• WERDLE
• Mastermind-Word: Code
• Word Master: Code
• VVORDLE: A Vue implementation. Code
• Mini Wordle: Written in 231 bytes of JS. Code
• Wordle Archive: Play wordle from the past. Code
• Guessle: A few extra features, including accessibility. Code
• Wordel: Emacs package
• Warble: Native Linux app, built with Vala and Gtk for elementary OS
• Wordle for Obsidian
• Faradle: Made for Android, with Jetpack Compose
• Wordle for R: Wordle clone, solver and helper functions for R console
• Shiny Wordle: Wordle written in R/Shiny
• Wordle for command line: TUI made with Haskell
• Wordlet: TUI written in Rust
• Wordle-Curses: An ncurses TUI, written in 55 lines of code
• Wordle TUI: TUI written in Python
• Wordle-cli: CLI written in Ruby
• Wordle: CLI written in GO
• terminordle: CLI with multiplayer
• clidle: CLI Wordle that can be played over SSH. ssh clidle.ddns.net -p 3000
• WORDle 97: Implementation for Word 97 using VBA Macros
• A Wordle clone implemented in 50 lines of Bash
• A "one-liner" implementation in Python

globals().update({l[:2]: __import__(l) for l in "re random sys string".split()}) or (lambda a, w: (lambda c: (lambda l:lambda k, i:l(l,k,i))(lambda f, i, t: print("Correct!" if t > 0 else "Fail...", "Word was:", c) if i == c or t <= 0 else (lambda z: print(t, "turns to guess a", len(c), "character word...") if i == "" else a.update({s: x for s, x in zip(i, z)}) or sy.stdout.write("\033[1A[\033[2K") and print(''.join([f"{x}{s}\033[0m" for s, x in zip(i, z)]), '\t', ''.join([f"{a[k]}{k}\033[0m" for k in a]), "turns:", t))([["\033[0;41m", "\033[30;42m", "\033[30;103m"][(1 if s == c[n] else 2) if s in c else 0] for n, s in enumerate(i)]) or f(f,(lambda y: lambda x: y(y,x))(lambda g, ip: ip if ip in w else g(g,input("\033[1A[\033[2K" if len(ip) > 0 else "").lower()[:5]))(""), t-1))("", 10))(ra.choice(w)))({k: '\033[0;0m' for k in st.ascii_lowercase}, [x.strip().lower() for x in re.findall(r'^[a-zA-Z]{5}$', open('/usr/share/dict/words').read(),re.MULTILINE)])

/usr/share/dict/words didn't exist in my system. Had to replace it with /usr/share/dict/cracklib-small

Variants

• Absurdle: Adversarial Wordle. write up
• Evil Wordle: Another adversarial Wordle. Code
• Squabble: Wordle multiplayer
• Squaredle: Multidimensional Wordle
• Lewdle: Guess a lewd word
• Sweardle: Guess a 4 letter swear word
• Primel: Guess a 5-digit prime number
• Nerdle: Guess an equation
• Mathler: Guess an equation for the given solution
• Letterle: Guess a letter instead of a word
• Dungleon: Guess a dungeon composition
• Squirdle: Guess a Pokemon
• Pokemon Wordle: Another Pokemon-themed Wordle (Not in English)
• Coomander Codex: Guess a Commander from Magic: The Gathering
• Airportle: Guess a 3-digit airport code

Strategies and Meta Posts

• Decision Tree approach: Code, Interactive decision trees

  • Meta post on Wordle optimal results

• Best strategy based on decision tree: Code, Strategy file

• Proof the Wordle can't always be solved optimally with 5 guess, but 6 is enough

• Information Theoretic approach for choosing optimal words

• 3Blue1Brown's video on optimal strategy

• Strategy and solver for Nerdle

• Proof of optimality of 4-move solution to adversarial Wordle

  • A shorter version of the above proof, written in python
  • Another approach, written in Julia

Solvers

• Wordle 1/6: A one-shot solver that utilizes Wordle tweets. There are a few other implementation of this kind:

  • Twitter-Wordle: unlike Wordle 1/6 not resistant to adversarial tweets
  • Wordle Reverse Solver: probably the first known tweet-based solver implemented?
  • Fast Solver for Wordle

• Decision tree-based solvers

  • Jonathan Olson's Optimal Wordle Solver: Code, Write up
  • Wordlesolver.com: Implementation of Knuth's five-guess algorithm for Mastermind. Code
  • Wordle solver with greedy-min-max search: Python implementation
  • wordlesolver: Julia implementation, with multiple strategies

• Entropy-based solvers

  • A Julia implementation
  • A Python implementation
  • Another Python implementation with write up
  • A lookup file created using maximum entropy strategy

• Frequency-based solvers

  • Wordlesmith: C implementation
  • wordle_solver: JavaScript implementation
  • Wordle-Solver: Python implementation. Code A few other Python implementations:
    • WordleSolver
    • Wordle Solver
    • Wordle Guesser
    • Wordle_Solver: Has a Primel solver also
  • Shell script implementations:
    • A two part series (Part 1, Part 2) with companion gist

• Other solvers - Solve with grep

Related Projects

• Collective daily stats based on tweets
• Visualize Wordle results in Townscaper
• Wordle AI Competition
• Make Wordle results accessible: Code
  • Alternative bookmarklet
• Discord bot to track Wordle scores
• Back up game stat