How To Cheat At Wordle

stephen@stephenswanson.xyz (Stephen Swanson) — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0700

Introduction

I know a fair few people who are playing the New York Time’s Wordle. I’m not very good at word games, so I started poking around to see if I could find the answer in my own way, and write a browser extension to do it for me.

Following the guide contained herein is guaranteed to put strain on your friendships with real Wordle players. Only continue if you’re willing to brave the consequences.

The Manual Way

It turns out that unlike some other Wordle-inspired games, the NYT Wordle just keeps the solution in the browser’s local storage, so the process for cheating looks something like this:

I’m using Firefox here. You may have to modify the steps here if you’re using a different browser.

First, go into the Firefox tool bar and select “More Tools”:

Next, open the Firefox web developer tools:

Then, click “Storage”, then click “Local Storage”, then click “https://nytimes.com”.

The solution will be in the long string on the right:

The Fun Way

After figuring out the above, I decided to write a little browser extension to automatically pull the solution from local storage for me. The extension is called Robotle, and it’s on my Gitlab.

Here’s Robotle in action:

Robotle currently only works on the NYT wordle, and only supports Firefox. Maybe someday if the mood strikes me, I’ll extend him and make a more universal Wordle cheating tool.

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How To Cheat At Wordle

Introduction

The Manual Way

The Fun Way