Three Wordle Assistants - Cleve Moler on Mathematics and Computing
 

<div class="content">When I tackle a Wordle puzzle, I like to make all the key decisions myself. My three assistants set up puzzles and suggest words when I ask for help, but I guide the actual solution. My assistants also make it possible for me to play Wordle anywhere, anytime, even when my laptop is in airplane mode. I don't need the [I]New York Times[/I] or access to the Web.

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Wordler, Words and Wordie are the three assistants. Wordler replaces the [I]Times[/I] by generating puzzles and evaluating responses. Words provides lists of possible responses. Wordie handles the Wordler Window and colors the letters gray, green or gold.

[B]Vocabulary[/B]

Words has a vocabulary of 4665 five-letter English words. Any of them are acceptable responses. The vocabulary begins with

vocab = [ ... "ABEAM" "ABETS" "ABHOR" "ABIDE" "ABLED" "ABLER" "ABODE" "ABORT" ...And, 584 lines later, ends with

"ZILCH" "ZINCS" "ZINGS" "ZIPPY" "ZOMBI" "ZONAL" "ZONED" "ZONES" ... "ZOOMS" ];If you were to print the entire vocabulary with 40 lines per page, you would print over 100 pages of words.

[B]Words[/B]

It took me a long time to write the Words assistant, which is called whenever the Words button in the Wordle Window is clicked.

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Words is supported by a seventeen-program library of functions named Wordspq where p and q are nonnegative integers with p+q