Не вордли (Don't Wordle RU)

Russian-language clone of DontWordle. A daily word game where the goal is to not guess the secret 5-letter word.

Play now: dontwordle.ru

Game mechanics

• 5 attempts (6 in hard mode) to avoid guessing the target word
• Every guess must be a valid Russian noun from the dictionary
• Every guess must respect all previous hints (Wordle rules apply)
• 🟩 Green — correct letter, correct position — must appear there in all future guesses
• 🟨 Yellow — correct letter, wrong position — must appear elsewhere in all future guesses
• ⬜ Gray — letter not in word — cannot be used again
• Survived — completed all guesses without hitting the target word ✓
• Wordled — accidentally guessed the target word ✗
• Eliminated — ran out of valid words before all attempts were used ✗

Undos are limited (5 in normal mode, 2 in hard mode) and roll back the last guess.

Stack

• Vanilla JS ES modules, no framework, no build step
• Single HTML file + style.css + js/app.js + js/logic.js
• Game state and stats persisted in localStorage
• Daily word: deterministic shuffle with seed 1337, indexed by days since 2025-05-14

Dictionary

4194 five-letter Russian nouns sourced from vfrsute.ru.
To rebuild: python3 scripts/fetch_words.py

Project structure

index.html              Single-page app entry point
style.css               All styles: CSS variables, dark mode, responsive
js/
  app.js                UI, state management, game loop
  logic.js              Pure functions: evaluate, satisfies, countValid
data/
  words.json            Shuffled word list (4194 words)
tests/
  logic.test.js         Unit tests for game logic (Node.js)
scripts/
  fetch_words.py        Word list scraper
.github/workflows/
  deploy.yml            CI/CD: push to main → SSH deploy

Local development

python3 -m http.server 3456
# open http://localhost:3456

No build step required. Cache-busting is handled by __BUILD_HASH__ tokens replaced during deploy.

Tests

node --experimental-vm-modules node_modules/.bin/jest

Deployment

Push to main triggers GitHub Actions → SSH into production server → sudo dontwordle-update (git pull + docker compose up --build -d).

Server: Ubuntu, nginx reverse proxy, Docker, Let's Encrypt SSL
Webroot: /var/www/dontwordle.ru

Analytics & SEO

• Yandex.Metrica (counter 109237777) — pageviews, webvisor, custom goals
• Custom events: game_start, game_end (with result, guesses, hard_mode params), share
• Open Graph + Twitter Card meta tags
• JSON-LD WebApplication schema
• Sitemap: dontwordle.ru/sitemap.xml

Sister project

Chainle (source) — a daily math puzzle game by the same author, same infra.