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You can write your own clone with grep, sh and /usr/share/dict/words.

This seems like quite a dismissive comment.

I think there is a lot to be said for the presentation, polish, how easy it is to share, and the idea that everyone sees the exact same puzzle once per day, making it viral as you compete with your friends.

I've never seen grep do that on its own.

I mean maybe if we used shuf with the same seed value for everyone it would work.

If you get everyone on social media who plays Wordle to run shuf, I'll eat my hat.

I bet not even 10% of Wordle players know what the command line is, nevermind shuf...

https://gist.github.com/huytd/6a1a6a7b34a0d0abcac00b47e3d015...

Minus competing, setting up the script for distros would be crazily easy.

Also, for Android/iOS, generating a clone would be a matter of hours.

You can write your own Dropbox clone with curlftpfs too![1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Not the same. You can get the same gameplay with the infamous wordle in Bash stub from Github.

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