Wordle

A simple Wordl clone, nothing special. Go to: https://wouterpennings.github.io/wordle/ for a quick demo.

Game Play

When landing on the page you fill in 5 letter words in the textbox below and press Guess. All the letters of the just submitted word get a color:

• Grey: Letter is not in the word
• Green: Letter is in the word, but not in the correct place
• Red: Letter is in the word on the correct place

If you get the word in 8 guesses you win!, otherwise you lose. Your page will look something like this:

After every game (or in the middle if you want to restart) you need to restart you game, you do that by pressing the red button.

Word Filtering

The words used for my Wordle game come from this repository. It is a (sorted) list of the top 100.000 words used in the english language, in reality it is a bit less. In my opinion however, the list is a bit "dirty", lots of double words, weird quirks in the formatting, etc.

To solve this problem, I created a Python script that cleans the list and writes the output to words.txt. The file is called: filter.py, it does these things:

• Removes empty lines
• Removes duplicates
• Removes everything that starts with #!
• Removes everything that is not alphabetical, removing things like: '-

This solves 99% of all problems, but not everything. I plan on combining multiple sources into one list and adding some more filter for letters like á for example.