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# hello wordl # hello wordl
It's [Wordle](https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/) but you can play forever! It's [Wordle](https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/) but you can play forever!
Play it [here](http://foldr.moe/hello-wordl/). Play it [here](http://foldr.moe/hello-wordl/).
## Introduction
Wordle is a word game similar to the TV show [Lingo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo_(British_game_show)).
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.
Click _About_ inside the game to learn by example.
## History
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.
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).
## But playing once a day is the point!
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.
## Where are the words coming from?
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.
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", "enrichment",
"handwriting", "handwriting",
"brighter", "brighter",
"natal",
"friendships", "friendships",
"immoral", "immoral",
"doom", "doom",
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"snatched", "snatched",
"importing", "importing",
"discounted", "discounted",
"donne",
"interrogation", "interrogation",
"punctuation", "punctuation",
"replaces", "replaces",
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"artisan", "artisan",
"rarity", "rarity",
"plaques", "plaques",
"kerry",
"insolent", "insolent",
"nearing", "nearing",
"pluck", "pluck",
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"meticulous", "meticulous",
"rodents", "rodents",
"disclosures", "disclosures",
"sims",
"mortgagee", "mortgagee",
"oily", "oily",
"madeleine", "madeleine",
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"corrosive", "corrosive",
"appalled", "appalled",
"enthusiasts", "enthusiasts",
"bertha",
"frankfort",
"lingual", "lingual",
"ceasing", "ceasing",
"clutched", "clutched",
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"sinuses", "sinuses",
"solidly", "solidly",
"ferric", "ferric",
"abigail",
"compels", "compels",
"quickened", "quickened",
"friendliness", "friendliness",
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"plugs", "plugs",
"armoured", "armoured",
"renewing", "renewing",
"matilda",
"impregnated", "impregnated",
"reparation", "reparation",
"cheapest", "cheapest",
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"barns", "barns",
"odors", "odors",
"marbles", "marbles",
"leapt",
"halting", "halting",
"aggregated", "aggregated",
"connotation", "connotation",