Lab 15.3 Wordle Solver

----- Welcome to Wordle Solver -----
Enter your initial guess: HOUSE
Enter HOUSE as your guess on the Wordle website.
Then enter the colors shown on Wordle (G for green, Y for yellow, N for gray): YYNNN

Possible words:
[RHINO, THORN, CLOTH, FROTH, WHOOP, PHOTO, CHORD, CHOIR, PHONY, THROW, MACHO, THROB, CHOCK, ABHOR, BROTH, THONG]
Enter your next guess: rhino
Enter RHINO as your guess on the Wordle website.
Then enter the colors shown on Wordle (G for green, Y for yellow, N for gray): YGnnY

Possible words:
[CHORD, THROW, THROB]
Enter your next guess: CHorD
Enter CHORD as your guess on the Wordle website.
Then enter the colors shown on Wordle (G for green, Y for yellow, N for gray): gGGgG
Congratulations!  You found CHORD in 3 guesses!

----- Welcome to Wordle Solver -----
Enter your initial guess: JAVA
>>> Sorry, invalid input. Your guess must be exactly 5 letters long.  Try again: ALBATROSS
>>> Sorry, invalid input. Your guess must be exactly 5 letters long.  Try again: GREAT
Enter GREAT as your guess on the Wordle website.
Then enter the colors shown on Wordle (G for green, Y for yellow, N for gray): YNNYYNYN
>>> Sorry, invalid input. Your color string must be exactly 5 letters long.  Try again.
Enter GREAT as your guess on the Wordle website.
Then enter the colors shown on Wordle (G for green, Y for yellow, N for gray): NNYYN
...etc...

public class PX_LastName_FirstName_Wordle {

    // To keep track of the possible Wordle words, declare an ArrayList of Strings

    // Default constructor initializes the ArrayList and fills it with the starting words.
    public PX_LastName_FirstName_Wordle() { }   

    /**
     * Given a word guess and the colors reported by the Wordle website, write a
     * method that eliminates words from the list that cannot possibly be answers.
     * For example, if a letter is marked as YELLOW then you can remove all words
     * with that letter in that spot.  And what should you eliminate if you
     * see a GREEN or GRAY letter?
     * @param guess A String guess chosen by the user
     * @param colorResult The String color for this guess reported by Wordle
     */
    // Your method here

    /**
     * Write a method that returns whether or not a given String is a valid Wordle guess.
     * A guess is valid if it is exactly 5 alphabetic characters long.
     * @param str A String guess chosen by the user
     * @return Whether the given string is a valid guess
     */
    // Your method here

    /**
     * Write a method that returns whether or not a given String is a valid color String.
     * A color String is valid if it is exactly 5 characters long and contains only the
     * characters 'G', 'Y', or 'N' (case insensitive)
     * @param str A String color reported by the Wordle website
     * @return Whether the given color String is valid
     */
    // Your method here

    /**
     * Write a method such that if the list of possible words gets down to 1 possibility,
     * return that solution word, otherwise return null.
     * @return The solution word or null if no solution has been found yet
     */
    // Your method here

    /**
     * Write a method that returns the list size of the possible solution words remaining
     * @return list size of the possible solution words remaining
     */
    // Your method here

    /**
     * Write a method that prints the list of possible solution words.  This list will get
     * smaller over time until only one item remains, or no items if you are doing
     * the Basic Version with words that don't have repeat letters.
     */
    // Your method here
}

public class PX_LastName_FirstName_WordleDriver {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        // Make a new PX_LastName_FirstName_Wordle() object
        // Print user directions and prompt for initial guess
        // If the user's guess isn't valid, have them try again until they enter a valid guess.
        // (A guess is valid if it is exactly 5 alphabetic characters long)

        // Repeat the following while we haven't found a solution (or until we know one doesn't exist).
                // Tell the user to enter their guess into the Wordle website
                // Then have them enter the colors that correspond to their guess
                // If the user's color string isn't valid, have them try again until they enter a valid color string.
                // If we haven't found the solution, then reduce the list, print it, and ask the
                // user the enter another guess
        // end of loop

        // Print congratulations message or sorry message if no answer could be found.

import wordletester.WordleTester;

public class PX_LastName_FirstName_WordleContestDriver {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        // Modify these two variables
        boolean printMessages = false;  // Whether to print all guesses along the way
        int numTrials = 100;            // Number of games to run

        int totalTurns = 0;

        for (int i = 0; i < numTrials; i++) {
            WordleTester wt = new WordleTester();
            PX_LastName_FirstName_Wordle w = new PX_LastName_FirstName_Wordle();

            String guess = w.getNextGuess(null, null);
            int turns = 1;

            do {
                String color = wt.getColorResponse(guess);
                if (printMessages) {
                    System.out.println("Guess:    " + guess);
                    System.out.println("Response: " + color);
                }
                if (!wt.getColorResponse(guess).equals("GGGGG")) {
                    guess = w.getNextGuess(guess, color);
                    turns++;
                }           
            } while(!wt.getColorResponse(guess).equals("GGGGG"));

            System.out.println("You found " + guess.toUpperCase() + " in " + turns + " turns");
            totalTurns += turns;
        }
        System.out.println("It took you an average of " + ((double)totalTurns/numTrials) + " guesses to find each word." );
    }
}