Winning

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The original purpose for qordle was to solve the daily wordle puzzle faster than my family. The qordle suggest command will quickly perform a ranking of the best next guesses. I wrote a simple shell script to facilitate using two different strategy combinations and jq to show only the top ten words.

qordle-suggest

#!/usr/bin/env zsh

set -eo pipefail

strategies=(
    # '-s freq'
    # '-s pos'
    # '-s bigram'
    '-s freq -s pos'
    # '-s freq -s bigram'
    '-s freq -s pos -s bigram'
)
for strategy in ${strategies}
do
    eval "qordle suggest $strategy -S "$@"" |
        jq --arg strategy $strategy '{strategy:$strategy, words:.[:10]}'
done

An example session of a few guesses might follow the below pattern.

qordle suggest session

$ qordle-suggest t.a.res g.r.ain m.o.l.a.r
{
  "strategy": "-s freq -s pos",
  "words": [
    "flora"
  ]
}
{
  "strategy": "-s freq -s pos -s bigram",
  "words": [
    "flora"
  ]
}

To see how qordle might have played a word using different strategies, use the play command. The following is a short script I use to abbreviate the results.

qordle-play

#!/usr/bin/env zsh

set -eo pipefail

qordle play -s frequency -s position -S "$@" |
    jq -s 'map({secret:.secret, words:(.rounds|last|.words)})'

If no starting word is provided, qordle will automatically find the optimal starting word for the specified strategies. In this case it ranked tares best.

play with freq and pos strategies

$ qordle-play under
[
  {
    "secret": "under",
    "words": [
      "tares",
      "cider",
      "older",
      "under"
    ]
  }
]

Chaining the bigram strategy would have resulted in a faster path to the solution.

play with freq, pos, and bigram strategies

qordle play -s freq -s pos -s b -S under | jq -s 'map({secret:.secret, words:(.rounds|last|.words)})'
[
  {
    "secret": "under",
    "words": [
      "rates",
      "diner",
      "under"
    ]
  }
]