Wordle-CLI

A command line version of Wordle.

Here's a sample session of the game.

me@mypc: ./play_wordle.py 
New game.
guess> cares
C A R E S
      / X
guess> !letters
T,O,L,I,N,D,H,U,P,G,B,M,W,Y,F,K,V,J,Q,X,Z
guess> toils
T O I L S
X     X X
guess> tells
You guessed correctly in 3 guesses.
T E L L S
X X X X X

The best way to change options is to edit play_wordle.py directly. There are five word lists included.

• shakespeare.txt: extracted from the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Specifically, it's the 10,000 most used words in that text file.

• winnie.txt: extracted from Winnie the Pooh. This is all 2400 ish words used in that book.

• wiki.txt: extracted using the WordList.wiki_corpus method. This is a list of words that appear in 1000 random wikipedia articles. This could contain some proper names, or some foreign words, it depends on which articles it retrieves.

• multi.txt: the top 15,000 words of the above three lists combined. This is probably the most sensible list to use. It contains about 2100 five letter words.

• wordlist.txt: a truly mammoth word list. There are 370,000 words listed here. Although there appear to be some typos in there.

There is also a set of tools for taking any text file and generating a list of most common words for use as a base word list for wordling. Use WordList.generate to create a new word list from any input text file.