And you can cheat at Wordle pretty easily with grep -iE '^$' /usr/share/dict/words... (or, back in the day, just look at the source) but that's not really the point if you want to just enjoy the game.

Peak HN, where "just look at the source" is the same level easy as "look at the map". ;) But I agree

Hey, I like to think of myself as peak HN :-P I imagine things have changed since the NYT took over, but the original Wordle notoriously had the word list in plain text in its single HTML file - I don't think it was even bundled.

It's really easy to cheat in pretty much all of the wordle-alikes, but where's the fun in that?

Wait until you hear how quickly I can complete crossword puzzles by looking at the answer page.