[W][O][R][D][L][E] — Rust-based Wordle game, in your terminal!

Ever heard of the world-wide phenomenon, Wordle from the good folks at The New York Times? If not, here's a short rundown on what the game is:

In Wordle, your goal is to guess a random 5-letter word in 6 tries. With each guess, you reveal more information about the word by getting feedback on the characters you entered: When a character is not in the word, it's marked with a red color, if it is in the word but in the wrong place, then it's marked with a yellow color, and if the word is in the word and in the correct place, then it's drawn in green. The secret word changes every day.

This application takes the original Wordle concept and puts it right in your terminal.

[A][L][I][E][N] ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌
[S][T][A][R][S] 🟨 ❌ ❌ ❌ 🟨
[H][U][S][K][Y] ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
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You won 🎉

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Play the game via the prebuilt executable

If you don't want to build the app yourself, I've included a prebuilt executable in the release/ folder that you can just run once you downloaded it.

To proceed, clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/bercivarga/rs-wordle.git
cd rs-wordle

Then, navigate to the release/ folder to find the rs-wordle executable. You can open the binary executable with the open command.

cd release
open rs-wordle

Then play the game! You can always exit with ctrl + c.

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Run and/or install the app yourself

In order to install this program in its current state, you need to have Cargo installed.

Then, you have some options:

1. Run once without installation

If you don't want the executable installed on your system, then simply run the following command in the root directory:

cargo run

Then start playing the game!

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2. Install binary on your system

Run the command below to install the rs-wordle executable and command in $HOME/.cargo/bin on Unix based systems or %USERPROFILE%\.cargo\bin on Windows:

cargo install --path .

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Credits for the API powering the daily secrets goes to k2bd/wordle-api

Have fun! 🦧