Wordle #646 was GUANO, which was not included in the original Wordle answer list when this was first created (and thus led to 0 suggestions from the extension, not a desired outcome).

I need to either run some statistical analysis on which of all the possible 5 letter words are most likely to be Wordle answers (and perhaps set some arbitrary threshold around 3000-ish) or find some new list of potential solutions.

The extension has been working great for months! However now it acts as if the browser is not on the wordle page and just displays "Open Today's Wordle" which when clicked just opens another tab to the same Wordle page, and the loop continues.

NYT made some more changes to the aria-label properties. Whereas before the first 30 items returned from

[
  '1st letter, L, absent', '2nd letter, E, absent', '3rd letter, A, absent', '4th letter, S, present in another position', '5th letter, T, absent', 
  '1st letter, C, present in another position', '2nd letter, R, present in another position', '3rd letter, U, present in another position', '4th letter, S, present in another position', '5th letter, T, absent',
  '1st letter, C, present in another position', '2nd letter, U, present in another position', '3rd letter, R, correct', '4th letter, S, present in another position', '5th letter, E, absent', 
  '1st letter, empty', '2nd letter, empty', '3rd letter, empty', '4th letter, empty', '5th letter, empty', 
  '1st letter, empty', '2nd letter, empty', '3rd letter, empty', '4th letter, empty', '5th letter, empty', 
  '1st letter, empty', '2nd letter, empty', '3rd letter, empty', '4th letter, empty', '5th letter, empty',
   'e absent', 'r correct', 't absent', 'u present', 'a absent', 's present', 'l absent', 'c present'
]

For the 10/24/2023 Wordle, the solution was PAUSE. For some reason, starting with the guess MERGE led to the extension stating that there were no possible solutions (and there being a mismatch between the possible solutions in the icon and the HTML of the popup):

Interestingly enough, if there was another word guessed prior to that, the possible guesses worked as intended:

My suspicion is that there's probably a bug in the code that tries to look for words that both have the correct guessed letter but also don't include it. In this case, the letter E is both not present (for the first E in MERGE) but also correct (for the last E in MERGE). I suspect also that it prioritizes letters not being present versus those being present.

Another example is the guess SOUSE for the word PAUSE:

hey mysticuno, really enjoyed your wordle solver! I had the same idea to make one of these to try out some javascript/html and had made my own version before looking at available google extensions and seeing yours. Yours is so much cooler! I was curious if you could help out a total newbie by sharing any resources on the JSON.parse(window ...) you use to get the board state, or how you figured out to do that... I used this ridiculous document.getElement path that sorted through the DOM (including shadow roots) from the html file I saw when inspecting the page. Thanks so much! (also forgive me if writing an issue isn't the way to ask a question like this I am new to github as well)

NYT no longer uses the nyt-wordle-state variable for storing the game state and guess evaluations, causing reports of the extension being stuck on the same word for multiple days or just being wrong.

It may be possible to get the evaluations from the aria-labels that are applied to the HTML elements that hold the individual letters. It feels a bit hacky, but in the absence of another game state tracker or network requests that we can look at this might be a good step forward.

x = document.querySelectorAll('[data-state]'); // Live collection of classes, only need up to index 29
x[0].ariaLabel // contains the guess and the evaluation like "r present" "a absent" "b correct"
window.localStorage['nyt-wordle-moogle/ANON'] // seems to be where new state is stored

This may be related to #5, but if a guess with a repeated letter has that letter marked as both present and absent, the extension will suggest the same guess as a potential solution. In this case, with solution NOISE, guessing NOOSE will mark the first O as correct, but the second O will not be marked as absent. This leads to NOOSE being suggested again:

Interestingly enough, Wordle doesn't stop you from entering the same guess multiple times:

The problem seems to be specifically with the same letter being marked as correct first and then not being marked as absent, whereas #5 seems to deal with letters being marked as absent first and then also being marked as correct.

Follow https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/i18n/ and https://www.stefanvd.net/blog/2023/04/24/how-to-add-internationalization-i18n-chrome-extension/