Gordle

A golang TUI implementation of the popular word quiz Wordle!

System requirements

A system dictionary must be installed. On debian based systems run $ apt-get install wbritish or $ apt-get install wamerican.

$ go run ./cmd/cli
Welcome to 🟩🟨⬛ Gordle ⬛🟨🟩
You have 6 trys to guess the word of the day.
NOTE: The current implementation will pick a new word on every run!
🟩 means, the letter is in the word and in the correct spot.
🟨 means, that the letter is in the word but in the wrong spot.
⬛ means, that the letter is in not in the word in any spot.
Enter 5 characters alter
⬛🟨🟨🟨🟨 (Try 1/6): alter
Enter 5 characters rutel
🟨⬛🟨🟨🟨 (Try 2/6): rutel
Enter 5 characters rolet
🟨⬛🟨🟨🟨 (Try 3/6): rolet
Enter 5 characters toler
🟨⬛🟨🟨🟨 (Try 4/6): toler
Enter 5 characters mulls
⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨 (Try 5/6): mulls
Enter 5 characters mills
⬛🟩🟨🟨🟨 (Try 6/6): mills

Your Gordle results (2022-01-18):
⬛🟨🟨🟨🟨 (1/6): alter
🟨⬛🟨🟨🟨 (2/6): rutel
🟨⬛🟨🟨🟨 (3/6): rolet
🟨⬛🟨🟨🟨 (4/6): toler
⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨 (5/6): mulls
⬛🟩🟨🟨🟨 (6/6): mills

The solution was: lister

Building

• Build the cli command (alternatively $ task build if you are using Task):

$ go build ./cmd/cli
<Empty output on build success>

Running

• Either run (alternatively $ task run if you are using Task):

$ go run ./cmd/cli
[...]

• Or run this after having build the command:

$ ./cli
[...]

Running Tests

• Run the testsuite with coverage enabled (alternatively $ task test if you are using Task):

$ go test -race ./... -coverprofile cp.out
?       github.com/TheDonDope/gordle/cmd/cli    [no test files]
ok      github.com/TheDonDope/gordle/pkg/game   0.584s  coverage: 63.8% of statements
ok      github.com/TheDonDope/gordle/pkg/storage        0.019s  coverage: 57.1% of statements

• Open the results in the browser:

$ go tool cover -html cp.out -o cp.html
<Opens Browser>