Wordy - a wordle-type game guessing tool
for f in `a-z`; do
# first position anchor
look $f | \
# anchors
egrep '^..s..$' | \
# duds
egrep -v "[A-Zquiz]" | \
# bad anchors
egrep -v '^s|^.t|^..e|t$|e.$' | \
# floaters
egrep 'e' | \
egrep 't' \
;
done
The corresponding Wordsy cli input for the above example is:
5 ..s.. et quiz 0,s 1,t 2,e 3,e 4,t
For 5 letter games, I've been using orate, lucid, and nymph based on a tip from someone at work.
Based on Frequencies (see below), I will start using inert, shoal, and dumpy for 5 letter games. And retina, slouch, and ? for 6 letter games.
Based on letter frequencies in English, the following inputs will generate potentially good starting words:
6 - erntsa
6 - erntsi
6 - erntso
5 - ernta
5 - ernti
5 - ernto
When the results list is long-ish, we can post-process this to order the results by frequency-weighting.
scaffolding: [email protected]:johnackley/ts-min-scaffold.git