At the June 2025 PuPPy meetup (Puget Sound Pro­gram­ming Python), I will be giving a talk about Exploring Wordle.

June 11: doors open at 5:30pm

GitHub Bellevue

10900 NE 4th St, Floor 21

Bellevue, WA 98004

In Exploring Wordle, I wrote a long blog post about solving Wordle pro­gram­mat­i­cal­ly, which implicitly solved Wordle in Hard Mode. Today, I want to discuss a strategy that is only possible in Normal Mode.

Hard Mode

Can be turned on through the Settings menu at the top right of the screen. “Any revealed hints must be used in subsequent guesses” it says. If you guess a “present” (yellow) letter, that letter must be used on all subsequent …continue.

Unless YOUVE LIVED UNDER ROCKS, you've heard of Wordle, the online word game that has become wildly popular since late 2021. You've probably seen people posting their Wordle games as grids of little green, yellow, and black (or white) emojis on social media.

The problem that I want to address in this post is:

Given some GUESS=SCORE pairs for Wordle and a word list, pro­gram­mat­i­cal­ly find all the words from the list that are eligible as answers.

Let's look at this four-round game for Wordle 797: