You are playing Wordle and having a hard time finding a 5-letter word?
There are 5883 of them in /usr/share/dict/words:
$ egrep '^[[:alpha:]]{5}$' /usr/share/dict/words | sort -fu | wc -l
5883
In combination with an old Perl script random
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
srand ($$ ^ time);
$i = rand($#ARGV +1);
print $ARGV[$i];you can make the first move:
$ random `egrep '^[[:alpha:]]{5}$' /usr/share/dict/words | sort -fu`; echo
likes
Aim for a common word without repeating letters.
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None of them are in it? Try again without these letters.
$ random `egrep '^[[:alpha:]]{5}$' /usr/share/dict/words | sort -fu | egrep -iv 'l|i|k|e|s'`; echo
manor
🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜ looks a lot better. No A and R in the word. The M is at the right place.
Only 2 possible words left:
$ egrep -i '^m.[^n][^o].$' /usr/share/dict/words | sort -fu | egrep -iv 'l|i|k|e|s|a|r' | grep -i n | grep -i o
mound
Mount
And that’s it:
Wordle 222 3/6
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