Verbiage

Verbiage is a word guessing game. When you guess the wrong word, you get a clue about how your guess relates to the secret word.

Repository

This repository is organized in two folders:

• scripts contains the scripts for generating the word lists and clues, and generating the daily puzzles.
• verbiage contains the code for the app.

Scripts

The scripts can be used as follows (see -h for options):

# Compile the list of english words (4, 5, 6 letters)
python scripts/word_lists/en_words.py

# Play in the terminal
python scripts/game.py play --language en --word-size 5

# Run tests on predefined words
python scripts/game.py test --language fr

Verbiage web app

The web app is built using SvelteJS and can be run locally with:

cd verbiage
npm install
npm run dev

The app deployed to verbiage.cc on each push to the main branch.

Stack

Verbiage was built using

• Google Gemini for AI-generated clues.
• Lexique383, mobypos, Zaibacus' thesaurus, Peter Norvig's frequency list, categorized-words, for the lists of words.
• SvelteJS, Matt Boldt's Typed-JS, Animate.css, svelte-i18n for the website.