Wordle

Wordle in the panel: a daily puzzle, practice words, stats

palv0.1.0Funbundled

Install in pal

Ships inside pal. Installing puts an editable copy ahead of the bundled one.

Wordle: The daily, three guesses in and two letters typed: the keyboard shows what the guesses found
The daily, three guesses in and two letters typed: the keyboard shows what the guesses found
Wordle: A word that is not in the list: the badge over the board, the row stays for editing
A word that is not in the list: the badge over the board, the row stays for editing
Wordle: Solved in four: the praise, the stats and the guess distribution, C copies the grid
Solved in four: the praise, the stats and the guess distribution, C copies the grid
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What it does

Wordle

The five-letter word game in the panel, keyboard only. Enter on the palette's row (or its hotkey) opens the board as a view level: the search input gives way to the puzzle's name ("Daily #259", "Practice"), the footer shows the primary key, and cmd+k lists the moves with their keys (the letters route but are not listed). The board is a render tree the extension builds from a pure game state (game.ts, render.ts); every key is a pick whose action is the letter or the move, and the reply is the next tree, so a typed letter pops in and a submitted row flips tile by tile. The tiles and the keyboard are the view vocabulary's tile nodes drawn by the app with its tokens, so the board follows the theme.

  • Typing: the letter keys fill the current row, Backspace takes one back, Enter submits. A guess must be five letters and in the word list; otherwise a red badge says so over the board and the row stays for editing.

  • Marks: a letter in its place turns green, a letter elsewhere in the answer amber, the rest grey. A letter the guess repeats is amber only as often as the answer has it beyond the greens, as in the original. The on-screen keyboard keeps the best mark each letter has earned.

  • Daily: with daily on (the default) there is one puzzle a day, seeded from the local date and the same on every machine; opening the palette on a new day starts it. Once it is solved or lost, n starts a practice game on a random word; the next day's puzzle waits until you open the palette again. With daily off every game is a practice game and cmd+n starts another at any time (a bare n types the letter mid-game).

  • Hard mode (hard_mode): a guess must keep every green letter in place and use every amber one, else the badge names the slip ("2nd letter must be R", "Guess must contain E"). A game keeps the mode it started with; the badge in the header says hard.

  • Result: the praise ("Splendid! 4/6") or the answer, the stats (played, win %, streak, best) and the guess distribution as bars. c (or Enter) copies the result for sharing:

    pal wordle #259 4/6

โฌœโฌœ๐ŸŸฉโฌœ๐ŸŸฉ
โฌœ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ
โฌœ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ

  • Escape leaves at any point; the game and the stats persist in the extension's storage, so the board is as you left it next time, across restarts too.

Stats count every finished game. The streak is wins in a row; a daily after a skipped day starts it over. Six guesses, five letters, like the original.

Keyboard

keys action when
a to z Type a letter playing
backspace Delete a letter playing
enter Submit the guess playing
c Copy the result (Enter too) over
n New game: today's puzzle if unplayed, else a practice word over
cmd+n New game mid-game a practice game, or daily off
cmd+k The moves with their keys
escape Leave the board; the game waits

Word lists

Two text files ship with the extension, one word per line, built by build.ts from public domain sources (nothing is fetched at runtime):

  • answers.txt (2551 words, 15 KB): the five-letter words of the American 3esl and 6of12 lists of 12dicts 6.0.2 by Alan Beale (released to the public domain, http://wordlist.aspell.net/12dicts/), plurals and third-person forms dropped, a short block list of slurs removed. The daily walks them in a fixed stride, so the order of the file must not change once shipped.
  • allowed.txt (8878 words, 53 KB): every five-letter word of the public domain 12dicts lists (3esl, 2of12, 6of12, 3of6game, 3of6all, 2of4brif, 5d+2a) and of ENABLE (the Enhanced North American Benchmark Lexicon, public domain), the answers included.

bun run extensions/wordle/build.ts <12dicts dir> <enable1.txt> rebuilds both.

Setup

Nothing to install and no permission. The game and the stats live in the extension's storage (<data dir>/pal/storage/wordle.json), shared by every config profile.

Settings, [extensions.wordle]:

key type default what
daily bool true One puzzle a day from the date; off, every game is a random word.
hard_mode bool false Greens stay in place, ambers must be used. Applies from the next game.

What it does not do

  • Catch up on missed days: the daily is the day you open the palette on.
  • Share to anything but the clipboard, or fetch the original's word of the day (the lists are its own, so the answers differ from the original's).
  • Mouse play: the board is keyboard only, as the whole panel is.

Platforms

macOS and Linux, the same on both: everything is in-process and the tiles are the app's own.

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    The board. Escape leaves mid-game; the game is there when you come back.

    • AType a letter
    • โ†ตSubmit the guess
    • โŒซDelete a letter
    • CCopy the result, once the game is over
    • NNew game, once the game is over
    • โŒ˜NNew game mid-game, when a practice word can be dropped

Actions

  • Type a letterAny letter key fills the current row.A
  • Submit the guessFive letters that make a word in the list.โ†ต
  • Delete a letterBackspace takes the last letter back.โŒซ
  • Copy the resultThe emoji grid with the puzzle number and the score, once the game is over.C
  • Today's puzzle / Practice gameNew game: today's puzzle if it is unplayed, else a practice word. `n` once the game is over, `cmd+n` while a practice game is on.NorโŒ˜N

Settings

Extension, [extensions.wordle]

daily
On boolean

Opening the palette on a new day starts that day's word, the same on every machine. Off, every game is a random word.

hard_mode
Off boolean

A guess must keep every green letter in place and use every amber one. Applies from the next game.

Defaults shown. Change them in pal's settings window or in the config file.