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William Leue
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Posted: 02:40am 12 Jan 2022

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"Wordle" is a word guessing game that has become very popular here in the states with both web and phone version. You try to guess a game-generated 5-letter word by entering your own 5-letter words and looking at the color-coded feedback. It's pretty addictive!

My version for the CMM2 plays the same as the other versions, except that it probably uses a different dictionary. The dictionary I use derives from one published by Don Knuth ages ago, and contains about 5700 words, not ALL of the 5-letter English words by far, but enough.

Enjoy!
-Bill

Wordle.zip

Turbo46

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Posted: 09:14am 12 Jan 2022

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@Bill,

Thanks for that. Maybe I can get my grandson interested. He's not a good speller (takes after me).

My only concern is that the dictionary may contain some words that use American spelling and confuse him. Maybe I can run a spell check program over it.

Bill

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matherp
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Posted: 09:15am 12 Jan 2022

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Quote My only concern is that the dictionary may contain some words that use American spelling and confuse him. Maybe I can run a spell check program over it.

Get rid of "color" for a start

Nice program

Volhout
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Posted: 09:25am 12 Jan 2022

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Nice,

In Netherlands this game is called "Lingo". And it is a show on TV as well.

Volhout

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paceman
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Posted: 12:06pm 12 Jan 2022

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Nice game Bill (Leue). I'd heard of this and thought it would be a good educational thing for kids too. Never played it before but I did manage to win my first try - took five words and about 15 minutes but I got there!

Thanks for your effort.

Greg

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Posted: 12:55pm 12 Jan 2022

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Reminds me of Bulls and Cows.

John

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Posted: 01:13pm 12 Jan 2022

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Now if only Jiri would fix the "like" button on CMM2.fun - poke, poke, poke

CMM2 Welcome Tape, Creaky old text adventures

William Leue
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Posted: 03:40pm 12 Jan 2022

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Sorry about the US spelling! I am using a word list I found on the web, originally compiled by Don Knuth. It contains about 7500 words, but English (some version of it) reportedly contains more than 12,000 5-letter words.

The word file is just a text file, so you can easily change it; the program only cares about 2 things: the name of the file and its structure: each 5-letter word is standard ASCII with a 2-character delimiter. The program doesn't care what the delimiters are, just that they are 2 characters; in other words, the program assumes 7 bytes per word when it computes an offset for SEEK.

I will see your COLOR and raise you an ALUMINIUM!

-Bill

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Posted: 07:52pm 12 Jan 2022

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Quote Get rid of "color" for a start

Sorry but that made me laugh

Bill

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