BARDLE
Guess the BARDLE and make the Bard proud.
A new BARDLE is available every day.
The Words:
- I wrote a Python script that takes the Bard's complete works as input and extracts every 5 letter word into one big list. I found that the Bard wrote 2,948 distinct 5 letter words. These include everything from character names to words from play titles.
- I then removed all the uninteresting words (in my opinion) like “every” and “great” and kept all the more unique, entertaining ones like “swain” and “apish” - not to mention all the words Shakespeare invented, like “batty” and “grime”! These made it to the final game.
- My goal in editing the word list was to ensure that each answer has a Bard "feel," meaning every word is one you'd remember reading in Shakespeare or can easily imagine him using.
- All answers are from Shakespeare's works, but valid 5 letter words not found in Shakespeare can be used as guesses.
- If you’re curious where and how the Bard used a BARDLE word, filter for it in his complete works on Project Gutenberg. Try finding all the different contexts in which he used today's BARDLE!
Pictured: Big Bill eats his bardles
BARDLE is dedicated to Dr. Salehi and the students of his Shakespeare elective.
BARDLE is a spinoff of Wordle created by Josh Wardle. Don’t know how to play? Check out Wordle for the rules.
