Command-line clone of Josh Wardle’s WORDLE, inspired by Paul Battley’s Ruby version. Features:
- play against random solutions, or against the once-a-day “official” Wordle solution (with
--today) - official dictionaries of solutions and valid guesses
- spoiler-free emoji summaries for sharing
Download and run (./play.py)
Requires Python 3.6 or later, and a terminal which supports colours and ANSI CSI codes, e.g. Windows Terminal.
To get the code:
git clone https://github.com/klipspringr/wordle-cli.git && cd wordle-cli
alternatively, if you don’t have git: click Code > Download ZIP on GitHub, extract the ZIP, open a terminal and cd to the extracted folder.
To run on Linux or WSL:
./play.py
To run on Windows in Windows Terminal or PowerShell:
python3 play.py
The Windows command prompt (cmd.exe) is not supported.
Not tested on macOS, but should work — let me know if any problems!
Options
Usage: ./play.py [-h|--help|--today|SOLUTION]
| Argument | Behaviour |
|---|---|
| none | Use a random solution from the official Wordle dictionary |
-h , --help |
Print this help text and quit |
--today |
Use today’s official Wordle solution |
SOLUTION |
Use a given SOLUTION (probably only useful for debugging) |
Config file
To tweak the terminal colours and other variables, copy config.ini.defaults to config.ini and uncomment and edit the relevant lines. Colours are specified using ECMA-48 Select Graphic Rendition codes (cheat sheet).
