conradludgate/wordle

Wordle TUI in Rust

wordle in your terminal

Wordle

Wordle is a word guessing game. Each day you have to guess a new word. You have 6 attempts and each attempt you make reveals some information.

Usage

# play the daily wordle game
wordle

# play the given day (eg if you missed a day)
wordle day <day-number>

# play the given date
wordle date <year-month-day>

# play a random game
wordle random

# play a custom word
wordle custom <word>

Install

cargo install cl-wordle --locked

Demo

wordle's Issues

a better Readme file

Could you improve your Readme file?
What is wordle?
How to play it? - meaning, its rules and such...

Inconsistent NYT wordlist

While sharing my results with friends I noticed that their word of the day for today (324) differs from mine. Possibly another update of the NYT wordlist is needed?

Generated word is always "SKILL"

Each time I run the program and enter "SKILL" as first guess, the program gives me the green rectangles and exits.

Default color scheme is not colorblind-friendly

For colorblind people, the default settings of Wordle and this TUI are difficult to navigate due to the color scheme. Wordle does have a colorblind friendly mode that can be toggled on. This approach also has a problem though because by not having the default mode be colorblind-friendly, anybody who is colorblind cannot read the results that everybody else posts unless those people also turned their settings to be colorblind friendly. To that end I think that the interface should have a colorblind friendly color scheme as the default.

Custom words don't appear to work

Currently running cl-wordle = "0.2.2" from crates.io, and made a small script to pick a random word from cl_wordle::words::ACCEPTED, and run it using the wordle custom <word> command.

Found that the words weren't quite working.

Made a loop to see if this was a one-off, but 3081 words later none of them worked.

Edit: I just read the code and it appears that cl_wordle::words::FINAL is the wordlist accepted, excuse the mistake. Closing.

AUR package

Hi!

FIY I've packaged your project in the AUR : bin version, git version 😃

Off-by-one error?

I noticed that the solution when playing this wordle seems to be off by one day compared to the solution of New York Times' Wordle for the same day, i.e.
the solution for day 297 when playing this wordle is the solution for NYT's Wordle day 296.

A workaround that I've found is to add +1 to day in src/word.rs, but this does not seem to the right path forward for a fix.

Happy to put up a PR if I could get a few pointers as to where the underlying issue may lie.

No longer up to date with the NYT daily wordle, seems a bit ahead

Spoiler

Wordle 830 on the NYT is smile, Wordle 830 on the TUI is aider
https://www.nytimes.com/svc/wordle/v2/2023-09-27.json

Small pwsh script as a workaround for now:

wordle custom (Invoke-RestMethod "https://www.nytimes.com/svc/wordle/v2/$((Get-Date).ToString('yyyy-MM-dd')).json").solution

Small bash + date + curl + jq script as a workaround for now:

wordle custom $(curl -sSL "https://www.nytimes.com/svc/wordle/v2/$(date -I).json" | jq -r .solution)

Keyboard display has letter 'O' twice

const LAYOUT: &[&str] = &["ABCDEFG", "HIJKLMO", "OPQRSTU", " VWXYZ"];

the letter 'N' is missing.

Installing cl-wordle gives me a "error: linker 'link.exe' not found (Windows 11)

I'll install a VS, but seems like a strange requirement.

error: linker `link.exe` not found
  |
  = note: program not found

note: the msvc targets depend on the msvc linker but `link.exe` was not found

note: please ensure that VS 2013, VS 2015, VS 2017 or VS 2019 was installed with the Visual C++ option

error: could not compile `memchr` due to previous error
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
error: failed to compile `cl-wordle v0.1.1`, intermediate artifacts can be found at `C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Temp\cargo-install03yD85`

error: there is no argument named `game_type` while compiling `cl-wordle`

When running the command cargo install cl-wordle:

error: there is no argument named `game_type`
   --> /Users/username/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/cl-wordle-0.1.4/src/bin/wordle/game.rs:300:27
    |
300 |         write!(f, "Wordle {game_type} {score}/6",)?;
    |                           ^^^^^^^^^^^

error: there is no argument named `score`
   --> /Users/username/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/cl-wordle-0.1.4/src/bin/wordle/game.rs:300:39
    |
300 |         write!(f, "Wordle {game_type} {score}/6",)?;
    |                                       ^^^^^^^

error: failed to compile `cl-wordle v0.1.4`, intermediate artifacts can be found at `/var/folders/9z/lyskqf9117j49qnlgjmh5p340000gn/T/cargo-installu6UsVg`

Caused by:
  could not compile `cl-wordle` due to 2 previous errors

cargo 1.56.0
MacOS Monterey 12.1

SOLUTION: Do not use Homebrew to install Rust. It will be a non-latest unsupported version.

Shuffling the keyboard removes formatting of invalid word

Steps to reproduce

• Start wordle, e.g. wordle day 0
• Type an invalid word, e.g. BLARG
• Verify that the typed invalid word is displayed on a red background
• Press , to shuffle the keyboard

Expected behaviour

• The keyboard is shuffled
• The invalid word is displayed on a red background

Actual behaviour

• The keyboard is shuffled
• The invalid word is displayed on the default terminal background, i.e. red background is removed

Unfortunately my rust knowledge is too limited to quickly propose a fix for this.