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"""Candidate tracking and a frequency/positional heuristic for ranking guesses."""
from collections import Counter
from dataclasses import dataclass, field
from .game import Clue, score_guess
WORD_LEN = 5
MAX_GUESSES = 6
@dataclass
class GuessRecord:
guess: str
pattern: tuple
@dataclass
class Solver:
answers: list
extra_guesses: list
history: list = field(default_factory=list)
candidates: list = field(init=False)
def __post_init__(self):
self.candidates = list(self.answers)
@property
def all_words(self) -> list:
return self.answers + self.extra_guesses
def apply(self, guess: str, pattern: tuple) -> None:
"""Record a guess/result and narrow the remaining candidates to those
consistent with it (by literally re-simulating Wordle's own coloring)."""
guess = guess.lower()
self.history.append(GuessRecord(guess, pattern))
self.candidates = [w for w in self.candidates if score_guess(guess, w) == pattern]
def reset(self) -> None:
self.history.clear()
self.candidates = list(self.answers)
def is_solved(self) -> bool:
return bool(self.history) and self.history[-1].pattern == (Clue.GREEN,) * WORD_LEN
def hard_mode_constraints(self):
"""Derive the two hard-mode requirements from history so far:
fixed green letters by position, and minimum required count per
letter from any green/yellow marks seen."""
green = {}
min_count = Counter()
for rec in self.history:
marks_this_guess = Counter()
for i, (ch, clue) in enumerate(zip(rec.guess, rec.pattern)):
if clue == Clue.GREEN:
green[i] = ch
marks_this_guess[ch] += 1
elif clue == Clue.YELLOW:
marks_this_guess[ch] += 1
for ch, count in marks_this_guess.items():
if count > min_count[ch]:
min_count[ch] = count
return green, min_count
def hard_mode_pool(self) -> list:
"""Every known word that is a *legal* next guess under hard-mode rules:
green letters stay in place, and every yellow/green letter seen so far
appears at least as many times as it has been confirmed."""
if not self.history:
return list(self.all_words)
green, min_count = self.hard_mode_constraints()
pool = []
for w in self.all_words:
if any(w[i] != ch for i, ch in green.items()):
continue
counts = Counter(w)
if any(counts[ch] < need for ch, need in min_count.items()):
continue
pool.append(w)
return pool
def letter_stats(words: list):
"""Per-position and overall-presence letter frequencies across `words`."""
n = len(words)
position_freq = [Counter() for _ in range(WORD_LEN)]
presence_freq = Counter()
for w in words:
for i, ch in enumerate(w):
position_freq[i][ch] += 1
for ch in set(w):
presence_freq[ch] += 1
position_freq = [{ch: c / n for ch, c in pf.items()} for pf in position_freq]
presence_freq = {ch: c / n for ch, c in presence_freq.items()}
return position_freq, presence_freq
def score_word(word, position_freq, presence_freq, position_weight=1.0, presence_weight=1.0, repeat_penalty=0.85):
"""Higher score = letters that are both common overall and likely in this
position, favoring new letters over repeats since repeats teach us less."""
score = 0.0
seen = set()
for i, ch in enumerate(word):
score += position_weight * position_freq[i].get(ch, 0.0)
gain = presence_weight * presence_freq.get(ch, 0.0)
score += gain if ch not in seen else -repeat_penalty * gain
seen.add(ch)
return score
def rank_guesses(pool, candidates, top_n=10, position_weight=1.0, presence_weight=1.0):
"""Rank `pool` words by the heuristic, computed from letter stats over the
still-possible `candidates`. Returns (word, score, is_possible_answer)."""
position_freq, presence_freq = letter_stats(candidates)
candidate_set = set(candidates)
scored = [
(score_word(w, position_freq, presence_freq, position_weight, presence_weight), w)
for w in pool
]
scored.sort(key=lambda pair: (-pair[0], pair[1]))
return [(w, s, w in candidate_set) for s, w in scored[:top_n]]