Wordle Bot

Goals

The assignment is a variation of the popular Wordle game, but you are writing the game's logic to find the solution given random guesses from a dictionary of words. With each guess, your solution will whittle down the set of possible solutions. You should be able to see the solution in at most 6 tries or so (though there are cases it wont find it in 6 tries!)

This assignment will exercise and reinforce your knowledge of

1. Control structures (loops, conditionals)
2. Using and manipulating strings
3. Using list, array or set as a data structure
4. File I/O

Programming

The assignment uses the BRIDGES Game API, so use the provided scaffold and fill in the functions as indicated. The user interaction is to use a key to enter a new word and it will show up with colors as in a typical word game, exact matches (green), matches in wrong positions (orange) and mismatches (blue)

Tasks

• Read in the 5 word dictionary (provided)
• Do the intializations, set up data structures that are needed, draw the board
• Get a goal (answer word) - picked at random from the dictionary
• Use a key press event to generat new guesses (words) - words picked at random from the dictionary
• Check if the new word matched the answer - if yes quit, else continue
• If not done, compare the guessed word to the answer - 3 cases to be used to whittle down the dictionary to a remaining set of potential solution candidates; do the following for each character in the guessed word
  1. If the character in answer matches the character in guess at same position, then remove all words that do not have this character in that position
  2. If the character exists in the answer, then remove all words in dictionary that do not have this character
  3. This character is not in the answer - remove all words in dictionary with this character
• update the board
• Write the cull function to remove words that cannot be the answer -- back into the loop
• Repeat the above until the max attempts is reached or the answer is found, whichever comes first

More Details to Get You Started

Key Press Events - NonBlocking Games

• keyFire() // for entering a new word

Variables, Colors, and Sprite Symbols

• NamedSymbol.symbolname;
• NamedColor.colorname;
• drawSymbol(column, row, NamedSymbol, NamedColor);
• setBGColor(column, row, NamedColor);

Important Functions

• The gameLoop() function loops until the win condition has been met (or there is a tie).
• quit() stops the game
• start() starts the game and calls the initalize function once before starting the gameLoop()

Help

Java

NonBlocking Games Documentation

NamedColor Documentation

NamedSymbol Documentation

C++

NonBlocking Games Documentation

NamedColor Documentation

NamedSymbol Documentation

Python

NonBlocking Games Documentation

NamedColor Documentation

NamedSymbol Documentation