What it does
This is primarily a Firefox web extension that runs in the browser and activates when you visit one of the New York Times game or puzzle pages. It shall allow you to instantly solve the Wordle, Strands, Spelling Bee, Tiles and Pips (almost), straight from your browser. It communicates with an API back-end which runs server-side Python and Rust which solves the problems and sends the result back to the extension so it can interact with the page and enter the solution.
How we built it
It was built mainly using JavaScript and Rust (for the pips solver) but with some Python for the solving algorithms.
Improvements
The Pips solver is very slow and takes too long to integrate with the front end at the moment. It could do with some serious optimisation. We know this is possible as we have discovered other repos online with possible solutions but want to find our own.
The code quality on the client side is somewhat dreadful, we have one file containing one immediately invoked anonymous function, containing several obscurely-named sub-functions.
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