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.
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.
