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