The rest of this post shows a few examples of patterns I've created with it. Using that tool, I can scan through the current Wordle word list and find all the guesses that will generate a desired pattern. It's not very elegant or efficient, but it gets the job done. It took a while to get the edge cases handled correctly, but after a few months of using each day's Wordle to refine the function and create new test cases, I have a tool that consistently Wordle's responses. I wrote a Python function, wordle_guess(), that takes a known answer and a guess and returns the pattern that Wordle will generate for that guess. For each row, I had to come up with a word to generate the pattern needed for that row.ĭetermining the candidate words for each row can be time-consuming if you're just doing it by trial and error. ![]() I knew the answer on March 3 would be MOURN, and I decided I wanted to generate a question-mark pattern. The other piece of the puzzle for creating Wordle Art is that you need a way to determine which guesses will generate the pattern that you need for each row. So there are many 5-letter words that you can play in Scrabble but aren't allowed in Wordle. Scrabble, on the other hand, uses a list of 9000 valid words. There are over 100,000 5-letter words in English, and Wordle only accepts about 2300 of them. In other words, every guess you make in Wordle has to be a word from the list. Wordle's word list is more than just the answers: it's also the list of valid guesses. So far, since the New York Times took over Wordle in early 2022, they've removed a word once every two or three months. When that happens, you just need to re-download a fresh copy of the new list. ![]() That almost always works, but every now and then they'll remove a word and republish the list. Once you have the word list, you can search for the answer on a known date (say, yesterday's answer) and then step forward to today's answer. Here's some Python code that will save a copy of the current word list: An example of a few entries from the Wordle word list, showing the answers for the first 7 days of June 2022. There's a predefined list of words buried in the game's source code, and they just step through that list in sequential order. The answer is pretty simple: you just need to know the answer ahead of time, and then you can plan a series of words to generate a pattern. You might be wondering how it's possible to intentionally create a specific pattern in Wordle. My Wordle guess distribution is heavily weighted toward the maximum number of guesses, and I like it that way. I usually use all six guesses to get the answer, although sometimes I use five if that fits the pattern I'm trying to create that day. ![]() ![]() If minimizing the number of guesses is the goal, I suck at Wordle, because after playing like everyone else for a month or so, I started playing "Wordle Art" instead, meaning that I don't try to solve each day's puzzle efficiently, I try to solve it artfully. People post their Wordle scores every day, often to brag about how few guesses they needed. Within a month or two of the game's release in October 2021, millions of people were playing every day, or making fun of those who were. Wordle took the Twitterverse by storm during the winter of 2021-2022.
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