Command-line clone of Josh Wardle's Wordle, inspired by Paul Battley's Ruby version. Features:

• play against random solutions, or against the daily "official" Wordle solution
• uses official (NYT) dictionaries of solutions and valid guesses
• spoiler-free emoji summaries for sharing
• optional hints mode (--hints) to show number of possible words remaining

Requires Python 3.6 or later, and a modern terminal app.

To download the code and run it:

git clone https://github.com/klipspringr/wordle-cli.git && cd wordle-cli
python3 play.py

Alternatively, if you don't have git: click Code > Download ZIP on GitHub, extract the ZIP, open a terminal, cd to the extracted folder and run python3 play.py.

A terminal with support for colours and emoji is required. On Windows and WSL, Windows Terminal is the best choice. PowerShell and the Windows command prompt are only supported if running in Windows Terminal.

Usage: python3 play.py [-h|--help] [--today|DAY|SOLUTION] [--hints]

Note: options marked * are mutually-exclusive.

So, to play against random solutions, run python3 play.py; to play today's official solution, run python3 play.py --today; or to play against the solution from game day 211 (16 January 2022), run python3 play 211.

Hints mode (--hints) looks like this:

To change the terminal colours, sharing emoji and other variables, save the file config.ini.defaults as config.ini and uncomment and edit the relevant lines. Colours are specified using ECMA-48 Select Graphic Rendition codes (cheat sheet).