My Wordle

I've been keeping a running list of my Wordle games for a few months. (Not just the famously copy-pasteable emoji-color patterns, but the specific words.)

Now I can visualize my "average Wordle," in the sense of: if I average all my games together, what's the mean color value of each grid element?

Answer (for the 168 puzzles on file as of July 18, 2022):

Usage

Input file format

Provide a text file where your actual guessed words are placed in blocks, with each block is separated by one or more blank lines. Lines starting with -- are ignored (allowing you to add whole-line comments).

The file test_history.txt gives an example with two puzzles:

-- Apr 5, 2022  (treated as a comment)
SLANT
TALON
NATAL

-- Apr 4, 2022
LORDS
SLANT
SCALE
SHAWL

Running the script

Once you have a text file copy of all your puzzles, generate a PNG with:

$ python wordle_mean.py wordle_history.txt output.png

Python environment

I've installed Pillow in a Python 3 virtual environment:

$ pip install Pillow

Currently looks like:

$ pip freeze
Pillow==9.1.0

That should be all you need to run the Python script.

TODO

1. I'd like to look at whether I tend to guess words that are too rare, or too common, compared to the typical answer.
2. I'd like to make a "tank-counting problem" estimate of the total number of words Wordle can use as an answer.