*! version 2.0.0 16feb2022

Title

wordy -- plays a silly word game and shows your guesses on a Stata graph

Syntax

wordy [pattern]
[, useindx(integer) suppresscheck ]

Description

wordy with no argument picks a new word every day from a list of 8,938 five-letter words legal in a popular crossword game in 1998
(only 8,887 are eligible to be shown, as a word chosen that appears on
a 2020 NASPA list of offensive words is replaced automatically by a different word.)

You then have six guesses at the word, and every time you type a guess, a Stata graph appears showing green squares
for letters in the right position and yellow squares for a letter that appears in the word but in the wrong position.
This may remind you of a different game using colored pegs on an oblong brown plastic board. You can enter a solitary q if you want to quit early.

wordy with an optional argument pattern looks up legal five-letter words matching a pattern with letters specified and ? used as a wildcard meaning any letter.
For example wordy bo??e returns 12 of the 13 legal words matching that pattern (excluding one
offensive word).

The option useindx can be used to specify a different day (measured as elapsed days from 1 Jan 1960) to use
when picking the word, thereby giving you the chance to play many distinct games on one calendar day, and waste even more time.

The option suppresscheck suppresses a check that the guess is a real word, thereby giving you the chance to
guess random strings of letter and further optimize your guesses.

Authors

Austin Nichols

austinnichols@gmail.com

Citation of wordy

wordy is not an official Stata command. It is a free contribution
to the Stata community, like a paper you might deposit in the recycling bin. Please cite it as such:

Austin Nichols. 2022.
wordy: Stata module for playing word games and wasting time.
http://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s456890.html

Contact for support

Austin Nichols
Washington, DC, USA
austinnichols@gmail.com

Also see

Manual: [U] Chapter 3.2 Stata on the Internet stata_on_internet [U] Chapter 29 Using the Internet to keep up to date whatsnew