Heh, I got this as a interview question years ago.

Given a list of words, see if there exists a valid 5x5 square of words.

Been playing this one for a while, and I love it. I know it won't always line up this way, but the other day I was able to fill in 4 remaining words with 3 guesses and finished with a score of 8, felt great.

Nice, but seems to use a fairly restrictive word list compared to other games; might make it more attractive to some people as I have friends who say that "ZA" sums up everything wrong with scrabble in one word...

Thanks for the feedback! Do you mean in the square itself or the possible guess words? Tried to calibrate the square itself for a good balance between challenge and reasonably common words.

Possible guess words. "unlid" and "mirly" are (possibly over-optimized) good second guesses in wordle.

That is fair! I feel like those should definitely be allowed. I am using a wordlist based on this: http://wordlist.aspell.net/12dicts-readme/ which is public domain and has about 6k 5-letter words, compared to the Wordles 12k. If anybody knows any other good royalty free wordlists I would definitely be interested. :)

https://github.com/elasticdog/yawl is fairly standard for word-games.

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Seems possible that wordle uses it given the 12k number:

    grep '^.....$' word.list|wc -l
    12036

Thank you so much aidenn0! This looks great, will integrate it in the next update.

Not the GP, but “April” isn’t in the word list.

Many (most?) word games forbid any words that are always capitalized. As either a month or a first name, April is capitalized.

I think this (squareword) would be even more fun with a toggle button to transpose the square.

I've been playing this for a couple weeks now and have really enjoyed it. Well done!

Thank you! I am very glad you are enjoying it.

Nice job!

One thing, I don't like that plurals are possible answers. The original let you guess plurals but no answers were plurals.

This is really neat and polished!

This forces you to type extremely slowly to the point where it feels super awkward :(.

Hmm odd! Thanks for the feedback. I think it may be related to the material ripple effect on the keys. Pushed an update now that hopefully fixes it.

Really nice but... surely 'Squardle'? :-)

There was already a Squardle: https://fubargames.se/squardle/

Ah well there we go; wow that one is confusing...

edit: ...but interesting!

Yeah squardle is convoluted but feels surprisingly satisfying to solve.

It took me a few tries to get it but I'm pretty into it now.