Wassi CLI

Introduction

Wordle is currently abundant, and I have dabbled with it every now and then again. Last weekend I got a bit bored and felt the itch to write some F# again. I had also wanted to try using Spectre.Console in F# for a while. So writing a small CLI that assists me with the game of wordle seemed like a fun idea.

Disclaimer

This is just a fun project. It uses a very naive counting strategy to rank words. I know there are many better tools out there that take this more seriously. I purposely didn't look at any of them, nor did I want to spend more than a day figuring this out.

Wassi.CLI

Wassi (short for Wordle-assistant) uses Spectre.Console and works command-based. It currently has three commands.

Suggest

The suggest command will suggest words, ranked by their score, that fit your current progress and the letters you have already excluded. This is an example of a usage:

.\Wassi.exe suggest -p .A..s -e kltd -n 7

The parameter

• (-p|--progress) defines the progress. Has to be a five character string. Capital letters inidcate exact hits (green in wordle), lower-case letters occurrences in the word at the wrong position (yellow in wordle). If this parameter is omitted, it is interpreted as the starting point.
• (-e|--excluding) provides the excluded letters as a gap-less string. If this parameter is omitted, no letters are excluded.
• (-w|--wordlist) provides a path to a file containing the words to be used (default: "./word-lists/words.txt").
• -n indicates the number of results to be shown (default: 10).

Find

The find command helps you find a word containing given letters, which can be helpful if you want to eliminate multiple ones but can't think of a word containing them.

.\Wassi.exe find -i cko

Here, the parameter (-i|--including) provides the letters that should be included. Both -w for providing the word list as well as -n for the amount of results can be used with this command as well.

Rate

The rate command will show you the score a given word has, under the current progress, taking into account excluded letters, thereby rating it.

.\Wassi.exe rate -c joker -p J..r. -e afv

The word that is to be raten has to be provided via (-c|--candidate) and it has to be exactly 5 characters long. The progress and the excluded letters can be optionally provided it the same way as in the suggest command.

Sample

Here is a small sample of Wassi in action. It is based on the word list that can be found here.

Feedback and Contributing

All feedback welcome! All contributions are welcome!