Welcome to Letter Lasso, a Wordle-like CLI built with Python and SQLite. Choose from a selection of puzzles, then wrangle your letters together in 6 guesses or less to find the solution. View your scores (and your competition) in the leaderboard.
- Fork and clone this repo from Github to your local environment
- Navigate into your local directory and open the contents in your preferred code editor
- Run
pipenv installto install dependencies - Run
pipenv shellto create virtual environment - From the project directory, run
python3 lib/seed.pyto populate the database with puzzles
Ready to play? Here's how to get started:
- Run
python3 lib/cli.py - Enter a number 1-4 from the menu. Start with 1 to register as a new player.
- Follow the resulting prompts
- Type
"6","exit", or"quit"to end the program
🐎 Create a new player
- Enter a username to register and be eligible to play
🐎 Select an unplayed puzzle
- View your list of unplayed puzzles
- Enter your desired puzzle number to start
🐎 Take up to 6 guesses per puzzle
- Type a 5-letter word to guess
- Only alphabetical characters allowed
🐎 Receive your score
- Find out your total score based on your guesses
- 300 is the max score if you guess the word in 1 turn
🐎 Create a new puzzle
- Enter a 5-letter word to joing the puzzle database
🐎 View high scores by puzzle
- Select a puzzle number to view its leaderboard
🤠 players
- Stores players with their username
- Maps to the Python class Player
🤠 puzzles
- Stores puzzles with their solution
- Maps to the Python class Puzzle
- Puzzle class includes methods for
get_scores()andhigh_scores()to access all scores and best scores for each puzzle
🤠 results
- Stores results with their player_id, puzzle_id, score, and number of guesses
- Maps to the Python class Result
Methods available for all Python classes include: create, save, update, delete, get_all.