Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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In this project, we will build a clone of the popular "Wordle" game using Python. The game can be played directly via the terminal, and the project will only use in-built Python libraries.

💻 Source code: github.com/pixegami/python-wordle
🕹 Play Wordle: powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle
📕 Word data: github.com/first20hours/google-10000-english

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction and project scope
02:00 Creating the gameplay loop
14:20 Calculating the results for each guess
25:48 Adding color to the terminal interface
37:11 Adding a box around the puzzle
43:10 Preparing a dataset of 5-letter words
49:03 Use the data to generate random puzzles and validate guesses
56:10 Play test the game!
58:21 Wrap up