This is a clone of the Web word game Wordle for the Dutch language using nothing but plain HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
This was inspired by my spite at how I could not find a version of Wordle in Dutch that considers “IJ” to be one letter, as it is treated in capitalization—e.g. the place name “IJsselmeer”, not “Ijsselmeer”—and in crossword puzzles—e.g. (6) grootste vleeseter op land → IJ-S-B-E-E-R.
(As a side note, you may recognize that last example as looking like “greatest flesheater up land → icebear”. You’re right, it means “largest carnivore on land → polar bear”.)
For English speakers, “ij” sounds somewhere between an English “long I” and “long A” depending on the speaker. It often appears:
- where a “long I” sound would in English (by ↔ bij, five ↔ vijf, Friday ↔ vrijdag)
- where a “Y ending” would in English (lottery ↔ loterij, battery ↔ batterij)
- in the -lijk adjective or adverb ending, cognate to English -ly (manly ↔ mannelijk), but used more often (royal ↔ koninklijk—cognate to “kingly”)
You are free to fork the repository and make a version of this game in a different language.
You are NOT allowed to feed the code and surrounding content (e.g. Issues and Pull Requests) to a machine learning model. (i.e. no AI scraping)
As I am by no means fluent in Dutch, I welcome proofreading and corrections for the text in the game.