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Easier still, try one of the alternatives like Wordii:

https://frequal.com/wordii

Bonus features: * Streak stats to share * Try new words faster

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So it just told me that SPANKS, BALLS, and TEAMS are all not in the dictionary. What are the rules for this one?

Not sure, but all three examples you listed are plural. Maybe they didn't include such variants?

That was it! Not sure how I didn’t notice that.

Also think I might like that. Thanks.

I like this one! Clean and minimalist. Did you make it?

Shameless self-plug, but if anyone is interested in alternatives with an added challenge, I made https://squareword.org where you guess words to uncover a word square of 5x5 letters. Feedback has been positive and looks like user numbers are picking up, doubling about once per week so far.

Yes, this is a ground-up implementation using TeaVM and the Flavour toolkit.

TeaVM: https://teavm.org/

Flavour: https://teavm.org/docs/flavour/templates.html

I love the idea, but on my iPhone SE the 5x5 square overlaps with the keyboard, making it hard to play.

Hey! Glad you like it. I made an update now that I think should fix this.

there are many many words missing from its guess dictionary

laser lakes

to name a couple

Here's an amazing list of other wordles:

https://rwmpelstilzchen.gitlab.io/wordles/

The hard part of of the article is getting the history file from Local Storage. If you don't care about that then it's much easier.

SHREK IS NOT IN THE DICTIONARY

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