3b1b wordle solver

3b1b's Wordle solver

This repository contains Python code to solve Wordle puzzles with information theory.

Requirements

• Install the latest version of Python 3.X (at least version 3.10).
• Install the required packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

To print an exhaustive list of command-line arguments, run:

python simulations.py --help

Choose the game with --game-name:

python simulations.py --game-name wordle

python simulations.py --game-name dungleon

Alternatively, run wordle_solver.ipynb

Results

Results are shown on the Wiki.

References

• 3Blue1Brown, Solving Wordle using information theory, posted on Youtube on February 6, 2022,
• 3b1b/videos: supplementary code (in Python) accompanying the aforementioned video,
• woctezuma/dungleon-bot: the application of different solvers to Dungleon,
• woctezuma/Wordle-Bot: an extremely slow solver, mentioning some results.