Wordle Clone (Phase 1)

A minimal, self-contained Wordle-like game built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The target words are loaded from words.json (solutions only). Guesses are validated against a dictionary API.

Features in Phase 1

• 5x6 board rendering
• Keyboard input (physical and on-screen)
• Dictionary validation via free API (dictionaryapi.dev) with caching; falls back to allowing any 5-letter word when offline
• Colors tiles: green (correct), yellow (present), gray (absent)
• Simple status messages

Run locally

Two options:

• Open index.html directly (file://). The game will load a built-in fallback target list if words.json can't be fetched.
• Or run a local server if you want to use words.json as a separate file:

# Option A: Python 3
python3 -m http.server 5173

# Option B: Node (if you have serve installed)
npx serve -l 5173

Then open:

http://localhost:5173

Next phases ideas

• Animations (flip, shake, pop)
• Daily puzzle seed
• Share results grid
• Mobile polish and accessibility labels
• Tests for evaluation logic