Terminal Wordle

Play the NYT daily Wordle from the comfort of your terminal!

⚠️ this assumes you know how to use the terminal! If you don't you can find out how here.

Install

For Apple computers with ARM chips you can use the provided installer. For any other OS you'll have to compile the binary yourself.

ARM (Apple Silicon)

Open the terminal and run:

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Alvaroalonsobabbel/wordle/main/bin/install.sh | bash

You'll be required to enter your admin password.
You might be required to allow the program to run in the System Settings - Privavacy & Security tab.

Compiling the binary yourself

Install Go
Clone the repo git clone git@github.com:Alvaroalonsobabbel/wordle.git
CD into the repo cd wordle
Run the program make run

How to Play

You can check the official Wordle rules here.

Start Wordle by running wordle in your Terminal.
Have fun!

You can quit the game at any time by pressing Ctrl C

Status is held every time you quit the game or the game ends. The status will be automatically cleared when there is a new Wordle available or by manually by using the -rmstatus flag.

Options

Enables Worlde's hard mode.

wordle -hard

Prints current version.

wordle -version

Removes the status file.

wordle -rmstatus