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Wordle featured on BBC radio 4 this morning and so I had a look at it. Might it not be a good idea to write a Qwordle?

Now, I am a recreational BASIC programmer on HD SMSQE, so my attempt to write such a program will be amateurish but when I finish it, I will post it here. I will try to make it playable.

Hi

I wrote a little word game for myself which took a word from a dictionary, dorted the word into alphabetical order and used the fictionary definition as the clue.

I was learning Kotlin to convert to play on my mobile phone.

Kotlin nearly as nice as SBASIC.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

Runs screaming from the room!

OK, how do I programme my mobile phone....

Tinyfpga wrote:Wordle featured on BBC radio 4 this morning and so I had a look at it. Might it not be a good idea to write a Qwordle?<>

Coming to a QL near you real soon now.. It was actually nearly finished more than a week ago - when COVID19
struck.. Anyway, ready to pick up again soon. Im struggling a bit to get
it to work properly on a QL. Maybe I should just let that go and let
someone else do a QL-specific version?

This one allows you to add your own word list in whatever language
you choose.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

But you haven't seen my Qwordle. It might not be that bad.

pjw wrote: This one allows you to add your own word list in whatever language
you choose.

Unfortuantely, you're a bit too late for the "undisclosed seven-figure sum". But looks great!

Shouldn't any decent QL software that wants to use word lists use the spell device?

A propos: Is that available somewhere? Did TT release it into the wild at any point in time at all?

It is unlikely that my program will be considered decent but I hope it will not be indecent. I have a copy of TT's spell device but I don't know how to use it.
As far as I can see Wordle is a five letter word game, so I am not sure how useful a dictionary database would be. I am using a small list (currently about 70) of commonly used five letter English words for my Qwordle.

I use simple wordlists. A list contains words of the same length, pre-sorted and (for your own sanity's sake!) spell-checked in advance. The program configures itself according to the length of words in the list you use.

My Qwordle works! It only accepts characters A to Z. It seems a very boring game, so press Esc to kill. If you fail to solve the problem in six moves the game repeats with a new word. If you succeed press x to kill or 1 for a new game. You can type any word you like in a row. Real or fictional. I can't see the point of spell checking. The words in the tiny library are fairly commonly used English words.

I think the play might be improved if a row could be edited and checked against the stored words.(as in WORDLE)

There are probably too few stored words to make it playable. It's why I allow anything to be typed in a row. It is thus more like the board game, mastermind( based, possibly, on a much older paper game called Bulls and Cows). Maybe I could add more rows or not change the word on a retry.

As I have mentioned before, I don't how to zip a file in SMSQE so the source and object files are in a zipped WIN file.