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I was contaminated by this game. I just love it, it's like a simpler hangman.

But the wait was a pain.

So I downloaded a list of nearly 2500 5 letters words from the english dictionary, and set up a Vue3 app with Pinia instead of VueX (first time I try it).

The code is ugly, it was made in just a couple of jours. But it works just fine.

  [0] - https://github.com/linkdd/wordle
  [1] - https://linkdd-wordle.netlify.app

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berenza
first solution word i got was "DONNA" which was kind of rough to guess. second game it told me "DRAPE" wasn't a word. the game worked fine though, thanks. there's an everyday variant also at fiveletters.xyz
linkdd
Thanks for the feedback, yes a lot of words are hard to guess :)

But DRAPE is a word: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/drape

I downloaded the list from an online dictionary, I would be surprised if it weren't.

ksherlock
Your wordle doesn't think DRAPE is a word.

My computer has a perfectly good keyboard. It would be nicer if I could use that for typing in letters.

linkdd
Ah sorry I misunderstood you.

It seems the list I downloaded is very much incomplete. I should change the message from "Not a word" to "Word is not in the list", it would be more accurate.

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perilunar
> But the wait was a pain

The wait was good, and meant that it was hard to get addicted or waste too much time playing it.