This is a harness to write bots that play wordle.
See:
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
To play against the computer:
$ python wordle.py human
To test a bot named play in my-bot.py against the word "apple":
$ python wordle.py word apple my-bot.play
To test your bot against a wordlist:
$ python wordle.py wordlist wordlist.txt my-bot.play
To write a bot, write a function play in a python file that takes a
string state. state looks like:
2 abcd123 adept 31221
This is guess number 2, the secret word (in this example it's "apple") has a
hash of abcd123, your last guess was adept, the first letter was correct
(indicated by a 3), the third and fourth letters are in the wrong place (2),
and the second and fifth letters do not appear in the secret word (1).
To "score" your bot:
$ python wordle.py wordlist sowpods-sample-5s.txt bot-random-word.play | grep WORD | tail
WORD 80 16662 708084 8851.050000 toyos
WORD 81 10504 718588 8871.456790 tufas
WORD 82 9654 728242 8881.000000 umped
WORD 83 10280 738522 8897.855422 vacua
WORD 84 24327 762849 9081.535714 vines
WORD 85 2512 765361 9004.247059 walls
WORD 86 1078 766439 8912.081395 whews
WORD 87 28879 795318 9141.586207 wodge
WORD 88 11686 807004 9170.500000 yauds
WORD 89 515 807519 9073.247191 zetas
Here bot-random-word solved 89 words in 807519 guesses for an average of 9073.2
guesses per word. Can you do better?