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app wordl

Terminal Wordle game. Web like with keyboard hints and slow reveal animations.

5 unstable releases

0.3.0 Mar 16, 2024
0.2.0 Feb 21, 2024
0.1.6 Feb 20, 2024
0.1.5 Feb 1, 2024
0.1.4 Feb 1, 2024

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Download history 9/week @ 2024-09-23 3/week @ 2024-09-30

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wordl

Terminal wordle. Web like terminal wordle game with keyboard hints, slow reveal animations etc.

Wordl - Web like Terminal Wordle

Status Crates.io Version

Terminal Wordle.

WORDL aims to provide web like Wordle experience in the terminal, mainly

  • Slow Reveal letter colors after guessing.
  • Keyboard Hints
Wordl - Web like Terminal Wordle

Installation

Install from Cargo.

cargo install wordl

Precompiled binaries are available in Latest Releases page. Please note, the precompiled binaries are not signed. For example, in MacOS, you have to manually allow running the binary in Security & Privacy settings.

Update

Update installed binary with cargo-update like

cargo install-update wordl

If you don't want to install cargo-update, you can manually uninstall and install the latest binary from cargo.

About

Rules are pretty simple.

  • Type your guess and press enter. Press Backspace to clear already typed letter.
  • Press Ctrl-N to start a new wordle guess. Please note, this only works if the game is over. i.e. You have guessed correctly or you ran out of 6 attempts.
  • Press Esc or Ctrl-C to exit the game.

If the terminal window is too small, keyboard hints are not shown. Please make sure your terminal has minimum required height for the keyboard hints to be shown.

wordl-rs is built with Rust Ratatui library.

Wordle Words list

Data for Wordle words are present as .txt files in /files directory. The data was initially seeded from here and here. Right now, wordle words list is not synced. If you want any words to be added or removed, please submit a PR.

Dependencies

~12–19MB
~243K SLoC