Wordlebrain, a Wordle Cheat Tool

Hard mode is toast

JP Fosterson
4 min readFeb 26, 2022

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It was inevitable, after Wordle swept the word nerds in twitter, the next step would be for it to sweep the math and coding nerds. In the last month the web has been rife with optimality results and other hacks. Here is my contribution.

Wordlebrain is a command-line-based Python program that suggests words to guess by applying the constraints learned from previous guesses, eliminating impossible words, and ranking the remainder by positional letter frequency. It works very well in regular mode and excels in hard mode.

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JP Fosterson

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