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Devlog #3
The Wordle bot is finally complete kinda! I finished training the tile color classifier, integrated it into the solver, and connected everything to the bot. Watching the bot take a screenshot, read the board, interpret the colors, and play the game on its own was a really satisfying moment.

That said, there’s still plenty to improve. The biggest issue is that once the correct word is found, the bot doesn’t always detect the completed board correctly. I also want to improve the solving algorithm—it’s averaging around 4 guesses right now, but I think I can get that closer to 3 with a better strategy.

The code could definitely use some cleanup too. I rushed a lot of it because I just wanted to see the full thing working 😭. Now that I know it works end-to-end, it’s time to refactor and optimize everything.

Devlog #2

Finished the letter detection for my Wordle bot! After tweaking the contour filtering, the bot now ignores all the extra shapes on the board and only saves the actual letter contours.

I also went down a rabbit hole trying to crop the screenshot to just the Wordle board. I originally thought I’d need a complicated approach, but it turned out the simplest solution was to filter contours by their area and square aspect ratio to isolate the board. I also improved the thresholding so it works reliably in both Wordle’s light and dark themes.

After that, I started experimenting with TensorFlow to identify the color of each tile (green, yellow, and gray). It’s my first time working with TensorFlow, so there’s definitely been a learning curve, but once the model is trained the bot should be able to read Wordle’s feedback automatically.

Devlog #1
I finally found the motivation to improve my wordle bot!
today I learned how to use openCV and use contour detection to separate all the letters used in Wordle.

Before i just had it hard-coded to look at certain pixels, I can now detect the letters automatically from a screenshot, making the bot much more flexible and reliable.

Next, I’ll work on recognizing each individual letter so the bot can read the board, process the feedback, and choose the next best guess.