whelper

MacOS command-line utility to suggest solutions to a Wordle puzzle.

whelper compares its dictionary of possible wordle solutions against a template supplied by the user. The template is a pattern of letters where a dot '.' represents any character. See sample invocations below. The utility has several options for its use,

% whelper -h

or

whelper --help

describe the options and how to use them.

Installation

whelper is built with Xcode for MacOS. To build it,

1. Clone the project
2. Build it with the Xcode build command
3. Open the Build Products folder in the Finder
4. Copy 'Products/Release/whelper' to '~/bin/'
5. Copy wordle-La.txt to '~/bin/'
6. Create an alias in '.zshrc': "whelper='~/bin/whelper'"

Sample invocations

% whelper .east    
Found 4 matches.
beast
feast
least
yeast

% whelper .east --exclude bl
Found 2 matches.
feast
yeast

% whelper ..... -c 5 -e a
Found 1407 matches; printing first 5
beech
beefy
befit
beget
begin

Possible improvements

1. A MVC redesign with a Swift UI view.
2. Keep of list of past solutions and eliminate them from the list returned.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Mikey Ward, author of Swift Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide. whelper is based on wordlasso from his book. Thanks to Garrett Sholtes who published a wordle solution list that is the basis for whelper's dictionary