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I think I see a minor bug.

For example, if I hack the code to add the following line after the my $curr_word = ... line: 

$curr_word = 'QUOTE';

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this has the affect of forcing a specific word, just for debug. When I run it, and guess the word "emote", it displays: 
   ---   ---   ---   ---   ---
  | E | | M | | O | | T | | E |
   ---   ---   ---   ---   ---

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"M" shows up as gray, and "OTE" shows up as green, as expected.

However, the 1st "E" shows up as yellow. I interpret that to mean that the word should have 2 "E"'s. I expect the 1st "E" to be gray.

If I guess the word "smote", it displays the "S" as gray, as expected. Therefore, I think there is a problem when the guess has 2 of the same letter.

What do you think?

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Re^2: A Word Game (update)
by LanX (Saint) on Feb 09, 2022 at 23:25 UTC
    I think you are right about the behavior and it's not the way I saw wordle handling this case.

    But the OP didn't want to infringe any copyrights anyway... ;-)

    update

    more explicitly;

    The code does

    1. # Find letters that are in the word
    2. # Find letters that are in the word and at the correct position
    it should be the other way round, and correct positions excluded previous to step 2

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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Re^2: A Word Game
by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Feb 10, 2022 at 00:48 UTC

    Thank you for the feedback.

    Yes, this is the bug to which I eluded, but I am working on it.

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      I tried the updated code, but I still get the same result. Did you test the code with QUOTE as the current word and EMOTE as the guess? Don't you see the 1st "E" as yellow?
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        Yeah, sorry, give me a few days to figure it out.    :)

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        I think I've fixed everything.

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