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# hello wordl
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# hello wordl
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It's [Wordle](https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/) but you can play forever!
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It's [Wordle](https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/) but you can play forever!
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Play it [here](http://foldr.moe/hello-wordl/).
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Play it [here](http://foldr.moe/hello-wordl/).
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## Introduction
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Wordle is a word game similar to the TV show [Lingo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo_(British_game_show)).
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You get 6 tries to guess a 5-letter target word. After each guess, the letters light up in various colors as clues. Green means a letter is correct in this spot; yellow means a letter is _elsewhere_ in the target word; gray means a letter is not in the target word at all.
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Click _About_ inside the game to learn by example.
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## History
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In 2021, Josh "powerlanguage" Wardle created _Wordle_, a version of the Lingo word game that you can play once a day. The target word is the same for everyone each day, and you can share results to Twitter and compare with your friends. This made Wordle [go absolutely viral](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/technology/wordle-word-game-creator.html) around January 2022.
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I liked this game a lot, but wanted to play more than once a day, so I created my own version of it, where the words are random but you can play as much as like. I called it _hello wordl_, which is a sort of [bad programming joke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Hello,_World!%22_program).
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## But playing once a day is the point!
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Don't get me wrong: I, too, think this is the most brilliant aspect of Wordle, and I don't aim to dethrone or improve on the "real" game.
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## Where are the words coming from?
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To generate target words, I have been manually curating the top 25,000 or so entries of [Peter Norvig's English word frequency list](http://norvig.com/mayzner.html) to get rid of obscure words, inappropriate language, and British spellings (sorry). If you get dealt a strange target word, please open an issue on this here GitHub repository.
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To check guesses, I use some variation of the _Official Tournament and Club Word List_ used in North American Scrabble tournaments. (I'm not a native English speaker, but my English tends mostly American.)
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"enrichment",
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"enrichment",
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"handwriting",
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"handwriting",
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"brighter",
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"brighter",
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"natal",
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"friendships",
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"friendships",
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"immoral",
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"immoral",
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"doom",
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"doom",
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"snatched",
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"snatched",
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"importing",
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"importing",
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"discounted",
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"discounted",
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"donne",
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"interrogation",
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"interrogation",
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"punctuation",
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"punctuation",
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"replaces",
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"replaces",
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"artisan",
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"artisan",
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"rarity",
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"rarity",
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"plaques",
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"plaques",
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"kerry",
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"insolent",
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"insolent",
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"nearing",
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"nearing",
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"pluck",
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"pluck",
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"meticulous",
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"meticulous",
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"rodents",
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"rodents",
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"disclosures",
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"disclosures",
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"sims",
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"mortgagee",
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"mortgagee",
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"oily",
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"oily",
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"madeleine",
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"madeleine",
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"corrosive",
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"corrosive",
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"appalled",
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"appalled",
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"enthusiasts",
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"enthusiasts",
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"bertha",
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"frankfort",
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"lingual",
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"lingual",
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"ceasing",
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"ceasing",
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"clutched",
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"clutched",
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"sinuses",
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"sinuses",
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"solidly",
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"solidly",
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"ferric",
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"ferric",
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"abigail",
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"compels",
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"compels",
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"quickened",
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"quickened",
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"friendliness",
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"friendliness",
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"plugs",
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"plugs",
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"armoured",
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"armoured",
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"renewing",
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"renewing",
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"matilda",
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"impregnated",
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"impregnated",
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"reparation",
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"reparation",
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"cheapest",
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"cheapest",
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"barns",
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"barns",
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"odors",
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"odors",
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"marbles",
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"marbles",
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"leapt",
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"halting",
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"halting",
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"aggregated",
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"aggregated",
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"connotation",
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"connotation",
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