wordle

A Go-based CLI implementation of Josh Wardle's Wordle.

Spoiler alert: words/words.txt lists the solutions.

Installation

Mac OS

Mac OS homebrew users:

brew tap mdb/homebrew-repo
brew install wordle

Linux, Windows, and Mac OS users not using homebrew

Download the latest release for your platform.

Compile from source

Alternatively, you can compile from source:

make

...and run the compiled wordle for your platform:

dist/wordle_darwin_amd64/wordle
Version:        0.0.1
Info:           https://github.com/mdb/wordle
About:          A CLI adaptation of Josh Wardle's Wordle (https://powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/)

Guess a 5-letter word within 6 guesses...

Guess (1/6):

Development

Run tests and compile wordle release artifacts:

make

Improvement ideas

• Could https://github.com/rivo/tview enable some UI improvements? Or is that overkill?
• Is there a way to output a keyboard visualization with color-coded letters after each guess, similar to https://powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/?
• Would it be cool to provide an option to output the final grid as an image, such that it could be shared?
• Would it be cool to provide an option to output stats?
• Would it be cool to restrict game play to once/day?
• Should there be a -practice flag to support -practice mode? If so, should it use old solutions or perhaps https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dwyl/english-words/master/words_alpha.txt ?
• Should there be a -hard flag to support a hard mode?
• Could wordle support configurable backends -- like git -- for persisting stats and current state?
• Should wordle display a "Not in word list" message, similar to real Wordle?