Wordle Helper Program

Goal

Write a program to show possible solutions to Wordle

Input

• Letters we know are not in the word
• Letters we know are in the word but not where
• Pattern containing letters in the right positions
• Word list

Output

• List of possible Wordle solutions from the word list

Approach

• Read in word list
• Read in letters we know are not in the word ("bad letters")
• Read in letters we know are in the word but not where ("good letters")
• Read in pattern containing letters in the right positions
• Loop (once per word in word list)
  • Eliminate words that are not 5 letters long
  • Eliminate words with bad letters
  • Eliminate words without good letters
  • Eliminate words that don’t match the pattern
  • Print the word

Implementation

• Read word list [wordle-1.py]
• Eliminate words that are not exactly 5 characters long [wordle-2.py]
• Read pattern, good letters, bad letters [wordle-3.py]
  • Check no letters are both good and bad [wordle-3a.py]
• Eliminate words containing bad letters [wordle-4.py]
  • Make all letters lower case [wordle-4a.py]
• Eliminate words with no good letters [wordle-5.py]
• Eliminate words that do not match a pattern [wordle-6.py]
• If word list named on command line, use it [wordle-7.py]
• Now clean up the code [wordle-8.py]
  • Empty pattern causes error; check for it
  • Check for invalid patterns before asking for other inputs
  • Eliminate printing pattern, and good and bad letters

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MHI 289I, Programming in Health Informatics Version of December 2, 2025 at 10:43AM

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