Puzzle 117 gave me the letters _outh and when I inevitably failed it said the answer was ought. I don't know anything about coding, but I thought you might want to fix it. I tried to attach the screenshots I took, but it doesn't look like it worked? Sorry I'm not more help...

Hi all,

I just wanted to point out that index.html contains a Google Analytics script (see: 79427db).

While perhaps it looks harmless at first glance, perhaps contributors would ought to be aware of this while running/testing this awesome program during development, and so that they can be better informed on whether they want this or not while developing (or take it out from their forks while coding).

Not requesting a particular change, but would like to raise awareness on this for others who may be test driving (and potentially contribute) to the code while not yet fully immersed in the repo.

Once again, this is an awesome project (it really is!) and just felt that this needed to be pointed out for others.

Thank you so very much for giving us the archive. I am working my way through it and enjoying it every day. One small request:

In Josh Wardle's original version, the "success" messages are different for solutions in one (Genius (but probably a cheater)), two, three, four, five and six (Phew!) tries. I get really tired of the same old Congrats message. I'm thinking it wouldn't be much work to add some new variations of the success message.

Thanks for reading this, and for considering my request.

Dan Wilson
[email protected]
Kingston, Canada

Thanks for creating this. It would be great if each puzzle had its own URL, e.g. https://www.devangthakkar.com/wordle_archive/42 so you could, e.g. bookmark the one you've got up to. Want a PR for this?

Hi, not sure if anyone else has seen this issue or not but I was typing, and I think I might have pressed backspace or something, but the letter boxes were offset by 1, causing the 5th letter to show up as the first letter on the next line. I can't find the exact way to replicate this as it happened when I wasn't quite paying attention.

Screenshot:

This should appear in the game if the date is 2021-05-19 or at least 2027-09-20. The answer is cigar

I think there may be a bug in the tile colors.
In game number 151, the answer word is HERON.
If you enter the probe word, ERROR, Wordle Archive marks
that as

 E        R         R        O        R

Yellow Gray Green Green Gray

But the Gray tiles are for the letter R which does occur in the word.

Isn't the correct tile color response:

E         R         R         O       R

Yellow Yellow Green Green Yellow

H        E          R        O       N

In dark mode, the known-incorrect letters have a lighter color than the untried letters, which is the opposite from the original Wordle. This makes things unintuitive when just looking at the keyboard.

I enjoy your website, as well as wordle, but one thing that has always irked me is how I have to finagle to tap the enter button. I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this, but the enter button should be on the right, especially for users playing on an iPad in landscape mode.

It has been like that for me for a while. Is this intended behaviour?

Guessing KNOWN for https://www.devangthakkar.com/wordle_archive/?219 results in:

N is both "in the correct spot" and "not in the word in any spot". I'm not sure what official Wordle does, but I would expect the N in position 5 to be "in the word but in the wrong spot" with a yellow background.

I identified 4 letters with correct positions. And tried with all remaining alphabets for the 5th letter, but none of them fit (Note: 5th letter doesn't mean 5th position).

I would be nice if the "Wordle X" text that is shared is linked to the particular puzzle it is for.

It would be great to be able to go to a specific Wordle by inputting the number.

Example usage: if a friend shares one they did from the archive and i want to compare how i do on that one.

  const [gameStateList, setGameStateList] = useLocalStorage(
    'gameStateList',
    Array(500).fill({ state: initialStates.gameState, board: null })
  )

This causes an uncaught exception which is due to Array index out of bounds. This should probably be set to wordle_answers.length, but the array also needs to be grown if the wordle_answers array is updated.

When I solve a puzzle and come back to the same after some time, it should show the word that I solved. Right now, it only shows that I just solved the puzzle.

Better to have Random button instead of Choose. Choose drop-down will expand as days goes by.

I entered all vowels to start with and nothing happens

The archive could show the player's guess distribution, like real Wordle does:

Example:

I have not been able to reproduce

I ended up in a broken state after submitting an invalid word where an extra box was inserted.

1. Guessed 3 words
2. Typed in an invalid word on the 4th word
3. Hit enter (and I believe close to simultaneously spacebar)
4. The word was marked as invalid
5. An extra box was inserted after the last box of the 4th word
6. Submitted a valid 4th word
7. Started typing the 5th word
8. The first letter of the 5th word appeared in the second box from the left of the 5th row instead of the first
9. Opened developer console, deleted broken box span element (I did not look closely at or copy it first unfortunately)
10. Finished game
11. Clicked next and got a blank screen
12. Refreshed and everything was fine

This was probably just a fluke that's not worth chasing down but I figured I'd mention it since as a web developer I was curious

I’d like to be able to tell where I left off (starting with puzzle 1) so I don’t repeat a puzzle. Or if I do them randomly, which one I’ve completed already. Thanks so much for creating this!

Hi, can you add a colorblind mode for colorblind users? Thanks!

I can see the three middle buttons only on my phone.

Would be nice if one could swipe the button-row to the left or if the buttons are distributed to two rows if resolution is to small.

The only workaround on a phone is to switch to "desktop view" to reach the side buttons.

Or How about a dropdown menu on the number to reach older wordles?! Wouldnt need space!

It is nice to play many wordles in a row, but is it possible to get also the words in other languages? Don't need to change the interface language, just play with words in other languages. Thank you!

Currently the option to share comes only after completing the puzzle, but cannot be accessed again once that screen is closed.
A possible workaround is taking a screenshot of the guesses, restarting the puzzle, and making the same guesses again to get to the same result screen.
A button to get to the share screen would be nice.

Maybe it's not a necessary feature, but it is a good-to-have QOL feature.

it would be cool if you could have an option to disable showing the answer when you get it incorrect

The official world site keeps your progress upon refresh. Something similar would be nice, could probably store the state in localStorage for each day, and restore it if found (partial or complete). Could have a button to reset if needed.

I'd be happy to implement it myself this weekend, let me know what you think of the feature. I want to go through and complete all of them, but would like to keep my progress stored so I remember how I did on each.

My friends and I like to play "Night Wordle" where we do a second word in the evening, and we always set the day to 1000 days in the future from today. So if today's puzzle 262, "Night Wordle" is 1262.

Would you be willing to (in essence) eliminate like 44 of App.js? This line checks if the number is in "the future" or not, and sets it to today if so. I'd love to be able to set any day I want, including in the future.

I don't know how but extra block got created. Attached the screenshots:

I just deleted the text block from developer tools and continued to play.

The wordle site uses different icons for the invalid letters based on the theme when sharing
Can we have something like that here as well?

Light Theme

Wordle 219 4/6

⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Dark Theme

Wordle 219 4/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨
⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Alternatively, you could use media playback symbols:

Wordle follows array numbering so there is a solution for day 0 available which isn't in this version.

Please consider adding this as the first puzzle. I have the answer word available - I won't add it here in case it is considered a spoiler, but please get in touch if you would like the information.

Desktop, Firefox 96.0.1 (64-bit)

Screenshot:

Minor feature request, put the darkmode switch directly on the home page, halving the number of clicks it takes to switch to the mode.

Added a fetch from https://dictionaryapi.dev/ to add word definition from

Still could use better styling.
https://github.com/buttarb/wordle_archive.git

When we click the previous button when the Wordle Archive 1 is loaded, a blank page appears. Although when it's reloaded, it goes back to a random wordle, you could fix this so that the previous button gets greyed out when playing Wordle Archive 1

By pressing two keys at once for the last letter in a guess, and then pressing delete, an empty square will be created. This is seen in this screenshot

There is a noticeable delay between when I press a letter button on the keyboard and it showing up in a box. My partner has a Pixel 6 and there is no delay on her phone.

I’m using an iPhone 12 Max on iOS 15 (latest update).

Hi, it would be cool if users were able to see historic statistics similar to wordle allows you to see your statistics

The latest Wordle archive says 283 but the NYT equivalent says 284. This causes people to do what they believe to be yesterday's puzzle and communicate the solution to today's puzzle. Does this have to do with time zones?

A feature request would be to include the date of the NYT puzzle with the number- something conspicuously missing from the NYT site.

Since there is no copyright on Josh Wardle his code and he built Wordle with native JavaScript Web Components;
you could have extended the original Web Component, and built a version that plays all words backward in time:
https://github.com/mordle/mordle.github.io

It would be awesome if you could see your score on the Wordles you completed, like on this other Wordle Archive (screenshot below): https://metzger.media/games/wordle-archive/

Like maybe in the "Choose" dropdown next to the Completed check mark.

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As I saw in closed issues, some people have already mentioned this issue. I have found a way to resolve this bug. My solution was to use a mutable reference to the currentCol variable.

Currently, the font size for the letters in the answer boxes is very small, such that the letters take up less than a fifth of the box with or height. A font size of 48px makes it significantly easier to real a given line as a word, rather than a series of unrelated letters.