Games: Wordle

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Games: Wordle

Requirements

In your existing Games project, you’re going to create a Wordle game.

Wordle is a popular game where players get six attempts to guess a word. They are given feedback clues to guess the word.

• Green if the letter is in the word and in the correct spot.
• Yellow if the letter is in the word but in the incorrect spot.
• Gray if the letter is not in the word.

For example for the word “TOAST” the guess “TARTS” would be

flowchart LR
style 1 fill:green
style 2 fill:yellow
style 3 fill:gray
style 4 fill:yellow
style 5 fill:yellow

1[T] --- 2[A] --- 3[R] --- 4[T] --- 5[S]

Tests

You’re going to create a full test suite for the wordle game. Write (at least) the following test cases

• All green
• All yellow
• All grey
• some green, yellow, and grey

> Bonus: Edge Case: same letter is all 3 colors > > elixir > Games.Wordle.feedback("XXXAA", "AAAAY") == [:yellow, :grey, :grey, :green, :grey] > > > Handle greens first, then fill out yellows in order. The remaining characters are grey. > > Be warned, this is a hard bonus challenge that significantly increases the complexity of the solution. Consider solving the exercise without this edge-case first.

Feedback/0

You should be able to start your project by running the following from the game folder in the command line.

iex -S mix

Given an answer and a guess, your Games.Wordle module will provide feedback as a list of color atoms :green, :yellow, and :grey.

                         #answer   #guess
iex> Games.Wordle.feedback("aaaaa", "aaaaa")
[:green, :green, :green, :green, :green]

iex> Games.Wordle.feedback("aaaaa", "aaaab")
[:green, :green, :green, :green, :grey]

iex> Games.Wordle.feedback("abdce", "edcba")
[:yellow, :yellow, :yellow, :yellow, :yellow]

# If There Are Duplicate Characters In The Guess Prioritize Exact Matches.
iex> Games.Wordle.feedback("aaabb", "xaaaa")
[:grey, :green, :green, :yellow, :grey]

Play

Use the IEx shell to start a game of Wordle. This should prompt the user to guess a five letter word.

iex> Games.Wordle.play()
Enter a five letter word:  

Randomly generate a word for the wordle game. You might randomly retrieve a word from a list of words such as ["toast", "tarts", "hello", "beats"].

Retrieve user input and provide feedback based on their guess. For example, this would be the output if the word toast were randomly generated.

Enter a five letter word: tarts
[:green, :yellow, :grey, :yellow, :yellow]

Bonus: Six Guesses

After six guesses, the player should lose the game if they do not get the correct answer.

Bonus: Color Feedback

Use IO.ANSI to provide actual colored feedback.

IO.puts(IO.ANSI.green() <> "green")
IO.puts(IO.ANSI.yellow() <> "yellow")
IO.puts(IO.ANSI.light_black() <> "grey")

Make sure you reset the color.

IO.puts(IO.ANSI.green() <> "green" <> IO.ANSI.reset() <> " reset color")

Commit Your Progress

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Run git status to ensure there are no undesirable changes. Then run the following in your command line from the curriculum folder to commit your progress.

$ git add .
$ git commit -m "finish Games: Wordle exercise"
$ git push

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