Hello Guys 😁,

Recently you have been heard of a puzzle game Wordle. Today I will show you a simple hack to solve this puzzle.

Note

I hope you know the rules of the puzzle, if not please know the rules before proceeding the blog.

How Puzzle works

But before diving into the tricky steps you need to know how the puzzle has been built.

• The app is built using frontend only, they don't have any backend stack.
• The script file contains of 2 arrays (assume arr1 & arr2)
  1. arr1 - which contains the list of answers shown in puzzle (sorted in date order)
  2. arr2 - which contains the list of all 5 letter words (sorted in an ascending order)
• Assume if x is the word given by you

  if (arr1.includes(x))
    return "you found today's word"
  else if (arr2.includes(x))
    return "valid word but not today's word"
  else
    return "invalid word (i.e) not in dictionary"
  

Steps to find today's word

1. Open a new tab in any browser.
2. Open developer console -> Networks tab.
3. Open the wordle url - https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html.
4. In networks tab you can see the assets being downloaded. Select main.**.js file and view the response.
5. As I explained the script, today's word will be stored in arr1 only. So to know the result you need to know yesterday's word.
6. Search with yesterday's word & the next word in that array is the today's result.

Output

Yesterday's word is 'MONTH' (09-03-2022).

So I searched with the word 'MONTH' in the response and the next word in the list is the answer ('LAPSE'😛) - today's word. Tomorrow's word will be 'WATCH'😅... and so on...

You can try the same by knowing any one word and based on the date you can traverse it.