Words

Words is a set of command line word-based puzzle games. Best way to spend those minutes within the CLI while your build is running ;).

But Words is more than that. It has a set of built-in utilities that will help you check for solution candidates based on regexes, get word definitions or even learn random words each day.

Install

Homebrew

> brew tap ludovicianul/tap
> brew install words

Manual

Download the native binary for your platform from the releases page: https://github.com/ludovicianul/words/releases.

You can also add words to PATH so that you have it available at any time. Example for macOS:

> cp words /usr/local/bin/words

Playing a game

Words has (currently) 4 built-in games: Wordle, Hangman, Three_Words and Jotto. Each of these games have 3 built-in dictionaries: English, Romanian and Romanian extended. The games can be played with words length between 4 and 15.

words -w [letters] -l [language] -d [user_dictionary] -g [game]

When no params are provided, the default is: Wordle with 5-letter words and the built-in English dictionary.

Examples:

This will run Wordle with 5-letter Romanian words.

> words -w 5 -l ro

This will run Hangman with 6-letter English words.

> words -w 6 -l en -g hangman

This will run Wordle with 6-letter words and a user supplied dictionary.

> words -w 6 -d /Users/word/dictionary.txt

Playing Wordle

Based on Wordle gameplay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordle.

Playing Hangman

Based on Hangman gameplay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangman_(game)

Playing Three_Words

For this one you are given 3 words. From each word a number of letters have been removed (we call these words obfuscated) and added to a single shuffled set (available letters). The objective is to reconstruct those initial 3 words. The game accepts any combination that can be made using the obfuscated words and available letters.

Playing Jotto

Based on Jotto gameplay: http://www.panix.com/~sos/bc/jotto.html

Dictionaries

English dictionary used: https://www.wordgamedictionary.com/sowpods/download/sowpods.txt.

Romanian dictionary used: https://dexonline.ro/scrabble.

Additional commands

Usage: words [-hV] [-d=<dictionary>] [-g=<game>] [-l=<language>] [-r=<lettersRmoved>] [-w=<wordSize>] [COMMAND]
  -d, --dictionary=<dictionary>
                      User provided dictionary
  -g, --game=<game>   The game to play. Default: WORDLE
  -h, --help          Show this help message and exit.
  -l, --language=<language>
                      Language of the dictionary to be used. Default: EN
  -r, --lettersRemoved=<lettersRmoved>
                      The number of letters to remove. Has effect only when playing THREE_WORDS. Default: 2
  -V, --version       Print version information and exit.
  -w, --word-size=<wordSize>
                      The size of the selected words. Default: 5
Commands:
  generate-completion  Generate bash/zsh completion script for words.
  help                 Displays help information about the specified command
  stats                Display high scores for each game
  games                Display available games
  dictionaries         Display builtin dictionaries and number of words
  check                Check if the given word is valid or display a list of words matching given regex
  def                  Display the definition of the given word

Examples

Check all possible 5-length words starting with s and ending with t for English.

words check -l en -r "s...w"

The following words are matching the given regex: [sprew, squaw, strew, straw, strow, scraw, screw, scrow, serow, sybow, shrew, shrow, sinew]

Get a new random word definition for Romanian.

words def -r -l ro

 nostimada - NOSTIMÁDĂ, nostimade, s. f. Lucru, întâmplare, glumă etc. plină de haz sau caraghioasă. * Loc. adj. De toată nostimada = foarte nostim, plin de haz. - Din ngr. nostimádha. >> https://dexonline.ro/definitie/nostimada