wasmboy VS wordle

Looks like you can try it out on this webassembly Gameboy emulator https://wasmboy.app/

As u/yawaramin mentioned, unfortunately, there is no standard battle-tested way of compiling OCaml to WASM. If your goal is to try out WASM, Rust should be a pretty safe choice. There are existing Rust + WASM Game Boy emulators such as wasmboy and gopher-boy.

¹ Alex Selby’s wordle solver has starting words of CHOMP and THUMP. A starting word of RIDES is inadvisable as the minimum number of guesses in definitely more than 12. Link: https://github.com/alex1770/wordle

Like y'all, I wanted to see how I could do. Of course, I didn't get all the way to tested code on a gameboy. But it does compress & decompress in Python.

I took the central idea of encoding deltas (or actually delta less 1, since the delta is always at least one; I'll just say delta below), but did it on the full five letter word. The largest delta was still less than 2*18 but bigger than 2*17. (I'm not sure why the blog mentions 20 bits as the biggest delta; I used the dataset from https://github.com/alex1770/wordle/commit/62520406365ca58a1a...)

I decided I wanted a variable length code in bits. Manually, I found the best break-points that I could:

    breaks = [16, 128, 512, 2**12, 2**18]