A command-line utility for solving the wordle game by the New York Times. This program can help a person find the solution to a wordle puzzle by providing the prior guesses entered into the puzzle. Using these prior guesses, the world-helper will output a list of possible solutions to pick from.
In this scenario, three guesses have already been made. In order to find the solution, these guesses can be passed to wordle-helper on the command-line as arguments. Each argument consists of two parts delimited with a colon. The first part of the argument is the guessed word itself, such as the word "slate". The second part of the argument, following the delimiting colon, is a series of underscores, hyphens, and plus-signs that correlate to the same index as the letter of the word in the first part of the argument:
_indicates the letter at the same index in the guessed word aren't in the solution (unmatched letters).-indicates the letter at the same index in the guessed word are in the solution (matched letters).+indicates the letter at the same index of the guessed word are in the solution at that exact position (matched positions).
% ./wordle-helper raise:___-_ mount:_---+ donut:_--++
The solution is snout!
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