This is a simple python script to play Wordle or Wordl so you don't have to.
It uses a word dictionary and the clues so far to determine what words are still possible, and, more importantly, what guess will (on average) pare down the remaining possibilities the fastest.
NOTE: At the moment this only does 5-letter Wordl's.
Guessl uses a compact but weird syntax. It's a command-line script that takes three arguments, in order:
For example: ./guess.py '...e.' '//r//' 'tasdoily'
For each of the five letter positions, a lower-case letter indicates the correct letter is in that position. A dot ('.') indicates you don't know what goes there yet.
Example: '...e.' - The second to last letter is an "e".
For each letter position, you may have guessed some letters which are in the word, but not in the correct position. You don't know where these letters go. You do know they're in the word. You also know they're not in the position where you guessed them. This argument is described with the lower-case letters that are "elsewhere", separated by slashes ("/").
Example: '//r//' - There's an "r" in the word, but it's not the middle letter.
Example: 'a//ra//' - There's an "a" and an "r" in the word. "r" is not the middle letter. "a" is not the first or the middle letter.
This is just a list of letters not in the word.
Example: 'tas' - None of the letters "t", "a", or "s" are in the word.
$ ./guess.py '...e.' '//r//' 'tasdoily'
Wordl Guesser
Clues: '...e.' '//r//' 'tasdoily'
There are 19 possibilities left
If you guess 'bench' you'll eliminate 87.5%. (2.1 seconds)
The best first guesses are "rates", "tares" and "aloes", that eliminate 97.7% of the possible answers on average. A good second word guess is "doily".