I missed a couple days of Wordle, so I started poking around the code to get my streak back. Not only did I figure out how to play the word from any day, but I ended up hacking the whole game, finding out the date that Wordle will end, and building a browser extension you can use to improve your strategy.

The Chrome extension is available at

You can also review the code or install the extension from its source at

For BurpSuite to modify web requests, go to to install the community edition. From the Proxy tab, turn on Intercept. To modify JavaScript files, go to the Options submenu and make sure to remove “|^js$” from the first “Intercept Client Requests” rule. You can then intercept and edit the main.js file in the various ways as shown to change the solution, play a different day’s word, or modify the actual logic.

Music from StreamBeats by Harris Heller.
Sound effects from ZapSplat.

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