Get 6 chances to guess a char[5].
Download chardle.exe
and run it directly, or within your Windows console environment of choice.
You have 6 guesses to guess a randomly-selected 5-letter word. Type your guess (lower case letters only, please) and press enter. You can press escape to quit at any time.
It has been tested with cmd.exe
, Windows PowerShell, and pwsh
, ymmv in other environments.
⚠ The answer bank is visible, unobfuscated, in the source code. I don't care if you cheat, but wanted to make you aware.
You will need a development environment set up for building Win32 applications (I use Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition).
Thank you to everyone who kept me company during development streams! Thank you to Asaf for help debugging in the input code.