I’ve been looking through so many clones (and I expect we’ll see even more coming now) for a self-hosted alternative that also only has a single daily word that you can play only once. Some come very close, but all allow you to replay the same game multiple times, and that takes away the competitive part I have going with some friends (yes I suppose you could just switch browsers too).
But as Wordle is actually locally executed Javascript, and it’s collection of words are also stored there, you can save the whole Javascript package to a folder, and just click to open the page file to continue playing the game as it exists right now. I tested this with Firefox and Edge browsers, and it worked fine. Brave however has some block for local files, so it did not work with that browser.
To do it:
- Go to the Wordle online page.
- Right-click and choose “Save Page” or “Save As”.
- Then choose “Web page, Complete” (this ensures not just the page itself is downloaded, and includes supporting Javascript files).
- Save it to a location on your computer.
- To play it, just use your file explorer to find that download location, and double-click on the single html file to open it in your browser.
- You can bookmark that newly opened page to always find it easily.
Always use the same browser, otherwise, you will lose your stats history.
See https://gadgeteer.co.za/how-to-continue-playing-wordle-offline-as-it-exists-now/
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The above advice works for desktops just fine, but as usual iOS is a real pain as none of their browsers opens the HTML file properly. (NOTE: An even easier way than the steps below for iOS, is to try saving it to the offline reading list – see https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT200294)
So to get the Wordle code and to work offiline:
* Do the first 4 steps in the main post above to save the files to your computer
* Then copy them (the HTML file with the subfolder) to DropBox or GDrive (put them all in a folder called say Wordle)
* Now install the app called Documents by Readdle Technologies Limited (https://readdle.com/documents). That will allow you to connect to DropBox or GDrive, and download that folder called Wordle to Downloads on iOS.
* Use the Documents app then to open that Wordle folder and open the HTML file. The Documents app’s browser should render it properly as a web page.
Sourced from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7041166/how-to-copy-html-files-to-ipad-and-then-launch-in-a-browser under Answer 3.
Someone is also hosting an online copy of Wordle at https://www.makeworld.space/wordle/ (if it is still there). Using this you can just continue to play as normal, using this link.
Regarding previous comment, I’m not sure the iOS Reading List is working, as mine redirected to the NY Times link today. The other process to save the site offline would still work.
But I have discovered a perfect self-hosted clone that can be easily run in a docker container at https://hub.docker.com/r/modem7/wordle. This is working well for me.