Program Wordle in Python!

hello welcome back to the channel and today's video is going to be how to build the popular word guessing game wordle in python using pygame [Music] okay so wordle you've probably heard of it by now if you haven't been playing it and getting addicted to it it's essentially a word guessing game where you have six chances to guess a five letter word if every time you make a guess if you got a letter correct and in the correct spot then you get a green marker so that's a clue for the next time if you got the correct letter but it's in the wrong spot you get a yellow marker on that letter and you only have six chances to try to guess the word right super popular but currently the game only lets you play once so let's say you wanted to play more than once a day maybe you should build your own in python using pygame so first thing we do anytime we build a game using pygame and i build a lot of my little just widgets for fun in pygame it's a super user friendly module really easy to get started with first thing you do is just import pygame if you don't have it already installed you'll just probably want to run pip to install it real quick there's a million videos on how to do that if you're unfamiliar but so import pie game and then the next thing to do is just pygame dot in it and now we've called pygame and we can use everything inside of it so next thing let's just go ahead and get our screen setup okay so that we can have somewhere to display everything so i'm just going to create a constant variable called width and i'm going to create a constant variable called height this is a pretty normal way to do it you can definitely just punch them in when you create the screen because the next thing to do is make this screen variable and set equal to pygame dot display dot set mode and then you give it a size and that's why i created width and height but if you wanted to you could just punch a 500 and a 700 in there but as you'll see when we're creating the game board and a lot of the stuff we're going to put on the screen there's actually reason to want to be able to reference width and height and not just need to have it memorized as 500 and 700 so let's go ahead and start there and that's the screen setup and then let's go ahead and create a frame rate as well so if you've seen any of the previous pie game videos on this channel you'll see i always create a timer and a frame rate right in the beginning and that is because uh you want to control the speed at which your game is played so a really typical you know good frame rate is 60 frames per second and that's just regulating it so your app runs the same speed on all um on all machines one more thing we'll come up here and we'll just set the caption so that's going to be pygame dot display dot set caption and we'll just call it wordle knockoff maybe don't call it that if you plan on releasing this or using it somewhere but that's what i'm going to call it okay now just to get a screen pop up so that we can get started we'll go ahead and just create running equals true so this is going to be our main game loop and we're going to say wall running and again if you've watched a few of the videos on here you should be familiar with the fact that this is what i'm calling the main game loop you basically create a variable and you say while that variable is true do everything inside of this but that's also how you control like once per scan it does this 60 times per second you add the timer dot tick at your frame rate so that's gonna run this 60 times per second and then immediately so that you don't have an infinite loop you should always put the conditions in here for exiting and that's going to look like for event in pygame.event dot get if event dot type is equal to and then pygame dot quit so i'm going to assume you know a little bit of python in a little bit of pygame for this tutorial if you don't you can copy it down you can follow along and you can ask any of your questions in the comments below i'll try to get back to you as soon as i can but if you say the event.type is equal to pygame.quit then we want to set running equal to false and that's how we get out of our infinite loop so now this is a working game okay so to get the screen to actually show up let's go ahead and up in our screen setup i'm going to add a few colors because color in pie game is rgb so if we want a few that we can call just by typing in the names of them let's just define them in variables up above so to start i'll just call i'll create white and black as rgbs and um right around time timer.tick we're just going to also add screen.fill screen dot fill and we're going to give it a color i think actual wordle fills with like a dark gray but we'll just do black to get started here and you can play around with rgb values and settings as much as you want make it your own and then to get the screen showing up we'll do pygame.display.flip and then right underneath it pygame dot quit okay so this should be all we need right here to get a 500 by 700 window popping up there we go and that looks pretty good but it looks nothing like wordle obviously because we haven't drawn a board yet so let's go ahead and create a board um and right in the beginning just to initialize it and so that we can talk about it i'm going to create a list of lists aka a matrix and i'm going to put one row of info in each spot for this matrix so it is i believe six turns one two three four five and then six and i'm going to make six just rows oops those should be commas so i'm just going to type this and then talk about a little bit because it's kind of tricky to uh it's kind of tricky to explain everything i'm doing as i'm typing it but i'll give it a go so to start i essentially want every piece of the board to have a blank space in it so this is how i'm going to tell the game how many total spaces to be expecting to see um and so we're gonna just follow like the traditional wordle which is five letters but you could also use the same format to make it more than five letters but i'm just gonna put each row and i'm gonna give it five blank spaces and what we've actually done is we've created basically a matrix that's the correct size for our for our game okay so now what i want to do is i actually want to create a function i don't want to do this in the main game loop it would be a lot of code to stick in there and it's much more pythonic to create a function call it drawboard or whatever you want draw game and we're going to create a function that we're going to draw the board in okay so define draw board and let's go ahead and call a couple things so i'm going to create a variable called turn and then i'm going to call the board we just made and the reason i'm going to call turn is we want to show somewhere on the screen what turn you're on um and indicate that because in wordle you know it's typically just whatever the lowest blank column is but i think we can make it a little better by maybe indicating the turn that you're on so call those things first you could pass them in and pass them back out but we're not really modifying them here we're just using them here and let's use some for loops to create a board so we'll say for column in range zero to five and the reason it's zero to five and not zero to four so we're starting with zero and then going zero one two three four is when you use this in range it's not end inclusive but it is start inclusive so it's gonna go from 0 to 5 but not count 5. so it's kind of confusing but if you're familiar with python that should be old news to you and then we'll do 4 column in range and then just like before we're going to go one more than we actually want we're going to go 0 to 6 and what we want to do is we want to draw a rectangle for each of those so we're going to draw out all of the empty spaces for our game so we're going to put it on the screen let's make these white rectangles because we have a black background and this will make them stick out and then let's we have to start playing around with sizing so if i say you know column times a hundred and row times a hundred right think about spacing them out we made our screen 500 by 700 we want it to be five spaces wide and we want to use most of the screen so if we think about splitting the screen into five for the pieces maybe we want to split it and make them 100 a piece and then six times the pieces is gonna be you know 600 and they'll give us a little space at the bottom for instructions or score whatever we want so let's just start here and we'll probably modify it because i don't think this will look perfect and then just so we don't have a bunch of rectangles smushed together we're going to make them 75 wide by 75 tall so i'll explain this a little bit more when we create it but these are the four things you give every rectangle in pi game to fully define it this is an x and y start coordinate and then width and then height so uh we'll just go ahead and boot this up but a couple other things i want to do is i want to give it a width so i want these to be hollow rectangles with a border of three if you want them to be solid rectangles you just put a zero here and that'll give you a solid rectangle but then i'm also going to make them rounded just because i think i think it looks nice that's just me but i'm gonna do that and so this should if we go ahead and run it let's see if i goofed up nope there we go so it gives us basically the wordle board right it's not necessarily perfectly spaced because it's smushed up in the top left corner and it doesn't really it doesn't look nicely spaced so what we'll do there i always call this a fudge factor but we'll just add some limits so if we think you know we took 25 off of the total width of the screen so what if we split that or off of the width of the grid we gave it what if we split that and move them both by 12 how does that look and i think that looks pretty good it looks a lot more even right in the center of the screen so that's the kind of thing you can play around with um i like the look of that you can play around with it if you want one more thing i'm going to do is i'm just going to do pygame.draw.rect and here's where i was talking about wanting to wanting to make a indicator of what turn you're on i'm going to add another color to my color library and i'm going to make green now and we'll use this a couple times r g b okay and i want to add a rectangle on the screen i want to make it green and i would like to put this on whatever turn you're on so we'll always start it just a little inside of the screen and then we'll take the turn times 100 which is how we spaced out the boxes thinking back to the previous step and then we'll add a little fudge factor because we're not going to want this to be the whole size of the screen either and then we'll do width minus 10. so remember i said you could just type 490 in here if you wanted this game to be you know all very rigid um and you were okay with hard coding everything you could do that but if you made those variables you might as well use those variables so i'm doing width minus 10 and then i'm going to make it almost the entire height of the grid so that's going to be 90 tall and then i want this to be hollow again and i want it to be rounded just because i like the look of it you don't have to make it rounded but there you go so my idea here is as you go through the game it's going to highlight whatever turn you're on you could say you don't need to know that because it's obviously going to be whatever row isn't currently filled in i like the look of this it's my tutorial let's move on okay so we have the board getting drawn and what i'd like to do is i would like to turn to handling player entries now so when we have you know let's do it this way let's write the text of each of the board keys onto the screen and i'll put some dummy values in and then what we'll do is we'll go ahead and we'll go ahead and let's just get these typed in i'm going to put some info in just so we can show examples of the data getting written onto the buttons but then i'm going to modify this and we're going to go back and we're actually going to handle the user stuff so since we're in the draw board the the other piece of drawing the board is drawing whatever letters have been guessed right and that's why we passed the board in so what we're going to need to do is we're going to have to create a font in pi game and if you've done a little bit of pie game this is old news to you but if you haven't just follow along basically writing text on the screen happens in a few pieces first you need to define your font by doing pygame.font.font where the second f is caps and then you can pull a ttf font file into your program or you can point your computer to it if you have a specific look for your game that's reliant on a font then go ahead and do that i use freesands bold because it's built in and i can use it without having to add a ttf file to every one of my projects so i'm going to just call this title font because it's kind of huge i mean let's just call it huge font to be more descriptive so 56 is pretty big but that's because we want one character to completely fill the screen what we're doing here is we're giving the font name and then the font size and so we're making it 56 but now we've defined a font and then to actually create text so we'll call this piece text and you'll see why i'm putting it inside of both for loops here okay but so i want the title font dot render so this is step one in getting stuff drawn onto a screen okay and what we're going to do is we're going to say the text that i'm interested in is the board at row and then column so when you have a matrix or you have a list of lists you need to index something inside of something that you're already indexing you just do it this way with two square brackets one after another and the first one is going to take you to which entry so each entry is a row and that's why the first variable is row and then the second one is going to take you to an item inside of each row and that's why we do column so what we're saying here piece text equals title font dot render there we go i called it huge font i usually call my biggest font title so force of habit there but we just called it huge font okay so what we said is okay the text that we just put in there and we want to be true and this is getting drawn onto a black background so let's make it white okay and now that alone is not going to draw it onto the screen what you have to do is you have to do screen dot blit and that's block transfer i believe i don't know it's just it's screen dot blit that's what it is and you say what text it is that you want to draw into the screen and then you give it x and y coordinates and so similarly to before thinking about where we placed these it's column times 100 but then we scooched all of those by 12 and then this is text so it's going inside so we want to scooch it by even a little bit more so let's do column times 100 plus 30 and then let's do row times 100 plus 25 and let's just take a look at that so i put some dummy variables dummy values inside of our board just so you can see it that looks pretty good so this is nice every square should have one character in it so we're representing things pretty true to form here even once we start text typing values in so this is a pretty good start and i'm going to go ahead and just take my numbers out and make them spaces again and the reason i made them spaces is just because they're gonna be one character whoops they're gonna be one character once we type in the in the values and so having a space initially is for me it's one character and it just it's easier to model that way because we haven't yet started adding values but those could absolutely just be blanks okay so let's go ahead and actually take a look at what happens when a player presses the key because that's how you play the game is you guess at the letter so to start i'm just going to create a variable that i will call secret word and before the end of the game i'm going to show you how to look up the words so to actually check and see um you know like look into a list i've got this second python file with just a few five letter um words and i'll show you how like you bring in a huge list of words and then randomly select from that list we'll get to that at the end but while we're just setting the game up i'm just gonna have it hard coded and since it's about drive and it's about power and we stay hungry and we devour we'll just do secret word equals power okay and uh now let's go down into our event handling so everything under for event in pygame.event.get is what i consider event handling and this is where we're going to set up um checking what key the player is pressing okay so what i'm gonna say is if event.type and we're gonna use one that's pretty specific to needing text okay so this is actually not the most common event type in pygame if you've built like jumpers or shooters or anything like that you maybe haven't used text input before but it's super useful for just grabbing the actual text from a key that's pressed on the keyboard so it's if event dot type just like before equals pygame dot text input and then we want to check one more thing we want to check and not game over and i just like to think ahead about this because we're going to put some restart conditions in there and at the beginning of the game game over is obviously false but eventually we're going to want to add some like game over conditions and restart and if the player's pressing keys at that point we don't want to do anything so just going to add that right here but we definitely would run into it later so just something to keep in mind and then i'm going to create a variable called entry and that's going to be what entry the player just made and i'm going to set equal to and this one's a little specific it's event and then get attribute because inside of a text input there are a few different attributes and it's essentially got a dictionary of values and what the text that was actually pressed is called is called text and to show that i'll actually just go ahead and um print the event real quick and i think this is going to work i just want to show you what happens i'm going to press the a key okay there we go so if you see down here there's a few attributes there's what window it happened in and then there's also the text but there's also this pie game specific like event 771 text input so when we use this get attribute text it looks into the attributes dictionary which is right here and it's a bunch of key value pairs and it's um checking for a key that's equal to text okay so that's what we did here and we just set the letter a equal to this variable entry and now what we want to do is set board at and then if you think about if you think about where we want to write this to it's going to be whatever turn you're on so that's telling you what row you're on and then we need to make a new variable that'll tell you what letter you're on so we'll call it letters and to start i'm going to set letters equal to 0 at the beginning because no letters have been entered so when we do that though we're going to set that equal to entry we're defining a new space and since we put a variable in there already but we're overwriting it with entry it is just going to get overwritten so you don't have to worry about being space and then an a at the end it's just gonna be the letter a when you press a but then we have to move letters forward so letters plus equal one and you should be familiar this is just shorthand for writing letters equals letters plus one so whatever value you already had in the variable letters we're just adding one to it and now i'm just going to boot it up and see if i can type a few yeah so i can do you know just letters that's nice but yeah so if i go past 5 it's going to give me this value out of range because we're not checking to see if that's the end of a turn if you filled up your letterbox so let's go ahead and create some code in here just checking to see if letters is equal to and let me think when you've added zero and then you put one letter in one two three four five okay if letters is equal to five right then what we want to do is we want to kind of end the turn so i'm going to create a new variable that i'll call turn active and so this is gonna just be another condition so we'll go up here and we'll say and turn active and what we're gonna do now is we're gonna just check and only let you enter um it it's only going to let you enter a new letter if turn active is true so if letters is equal to 5 then turn active is going to be false and then if letters is less than 5 turn active will be true and i think this will make sense once we add some backspacing in why i wrote it that way but let's go ahead and make that variable turn active and to start it's going to be equal to true okay so um before we go back in and i show you like what the code we just did does let's add one more event which is going to be if dot event dot type equals and it's going to be pi game dot key down actually we should have put this above text input actually because text input backspace the space bar they're all this kind of event so if event dot type equals pi game and then dot key down i knew it i just didn't want to get it wrong okay so if event dot type is key down and then we check if it's a text input if event dot type is equal to pi game dot and then we'll say k underscore backspace and it's backspace and this is not supposed to be event.type this is supposed to be event.key okay and if it's the backspace key and they've entered something so we don't want to let them go backwards if there hasn't been any letters entered yet so we'll say and letters is greater than zero but if they press the back key all we need to do is take the board piece at um you know turn and then letters because that's where that's the last piece that got entered right and all we're gonna do is we're gonna set back equal to a space like it was when the game started and we're gonna take that letters variable we made and we subtract out one okay so now i'm going to show if i type in you know oh is it gonna work it is not what did i do oh it's because this is not supposed to be under key down just backspace i am having a goofy day all right let's see so if i type in you know my name we haven't done anything yet to let it go forward so i can't enter this turn but i'm typing more keys and it's not erroring out it's not going forward anymore and if i start doing board dot letters oh i did not put a minus one in there gosh good gosh okay all right so let's check that out peter backspace list index out of range oh this is supposed to be letters minus one okay because what so once you enter a letter we increment letters forward by one so when we clear out the last one that was entered we need to do letters minus one let me go ahead and check this out i'm going to type in pete oh i made a mistake i want to go back okay all right there we go so very cool um but i can't enter more letters so what's going on here and turn letters minus one letters oh letters minus minus one is moving it forward okay pete i can go back i can go back twice and i can enter more letters okay that was a fancy bit of troubleshooting there not fancy at all um just irritating you got to be careful with case and you got to be careful with negative so i had letters minus equal minus 1 which is actually adding one to it so that's why i wasn't able to enter more letters but we've got it working now you enter letters and once you've filled it out to five it won't let you enter any more letters but before you have gone on to the next turn you can enter backspace to or you can hit the backspace key to change your guess so that's cool let's go ahead and do the next piece which is going to be moving the game forward so actually taking a guess getting feedback and then moving on from there and you can use enter if you want i'm actually going to use space for entering a guess just because i i prefer it but so if they enter space and the game is not over then what we want to do is basically just increment turn um so we want to do turn plus equals one and then we wanna set letters back equal to zero okay so that's all space is gonna do um and i'll go ahead and show this so if i do my name and i hit space i'm on to the next one and i can type in i can do that i can hit space again so the turn mechanism seems to be working but obviously what we aren't doing yet is checking if it's if we got any of the letters right or anything against our secret word and i'm actually not going to do that in event handling i'm going to create another function that's basically called check words and so just like drawing the board i'm going to isolate the piece of code that checks our answers and i'm just going to put it into its own function that's very much so the way python was intended like isolate your your key functions into their own into their own spots so what we'll do is just like before in in our drawing of the board we're going to call a few things we're going to call turn and we're going to call the board and we are also going to call the secret word for this one because a lot of what we're doing is comparing to the secret word and now what we're going to do we're going to use some more for loops pretty similar to what we just did for um the full board drawing so for the full board essentially and i'm you know you could put this same code up above if you wanted um it could be considered part of drawing the board but i like to see where the different pieces are coming from so essentially this double for loop is just going through every piece in our matrix every time the the routine scans and what we're checking is to see if the secret word at position column and that's all we have to check is off of the column because it's going to go through each row individually but the secret word is not a word inside of a list or something it's just a word um so if the secret word at column is equal to and then the board piece at row and column so we're checking a specific character but we only want to do it for turns for pieces after we've finished the turn so we'll say and turn is greater than row so this is only going to check for pieces that the row is behind how far you've gone and it'll look good once we run it that should make a little bit more sense but we're gonna go ahead and draw a rectangle and we're gonna draw it on the screen and we're gonna make it green and let's go ahead and put it basically in the exact same position as the first rectangles so we want it to look like it's not even a new rectangle we just want to look like we're changing the color of the previous rectangle so this is how i'm choosing to do it and you for sure could do it a few different ways you could actually try to modify the original statement to where this is going to check for correctness and color your rectangle based off of that i'm just going to draw a white rectangle in every spot and then draw a colored rectangle if they got the it correct or partly correct but i'm going to make this one solid so where i was talking about before with the zero and i'll still make it rounded and then the second piece to playing wordle is if you get a letter correct so if the piece at board row and then column is just in the word but not in the correct position so i'm going to use an l if because we don't want it to check if it's um we don't want to color it yellow if it was already green but what i'm going to say is just if board at row column is in secret word and turn is greater than row just like before and i'm going to go ahead and copy this rectangle and we're going to have to make one more new color and we're gonna make it yellow to really replicate what's going on with wordle and we haven't made yellow yet so we'll go back up here underneath green and let's make yellow and now if you're not familiar with the color wheel yellow is what you get when you have red and green and no blue feel free to play play around with your colors as much as you want but that's it so that is going to give us yellow and green letters when we go on and since we know the word is power i should be able to test this i'll do po and i'll do roo and you can see that we're getting the solid rectangles which is nice but they're over top of the other rectangles so here's a really important part of pie game these are happening in the order you see them here so it's going screen.fill drawing the board and then checking the words all we have to do to get that not overwriting is check the words before we draw the board okay so let's go ahead and check and we you can see we got three greens let's do oh i have a few special characters in there okay and so we get yellow and we get green and that's nice but man white is hard to read on top of those colors so let's add another color and let's just make the text gray because gray is something that we'll be able to read on top of black on top of white on top of green on top of yellow and all we have to do to modify it is go down where we define the piece text and change the color from white to gray and let's see so you can see it looks fine on black and then it looks fine on green and i guess it looks fine on yellow too so i like the gray you definitely could pick any color you want you could even make it to where the text draws a different color once the pieces behind it are colored in if you want but gray looks good for now so what you probably noticed is nothing happens when the game is over and that's really the next important piece is we need to check and see if um if the game is over so we're going to go ahead and come down underneath our event handling kind of where we check the turns against the letters and we are going to add some code to go through the secret word and check it against the against the guesses so we'll say for row in range and 0 to 6 because we're going to go through every row and we'll just say guess is equal to because what we don't have is we don't have a really nice put together concatenation of all of the board pieces so we need to concatenate all of them you could do a little for loop here if you really want to i'm just going to do it this way because it's only five letters it's really not going to take long and what i'm doing is i'm taking the five characters that have been entered and i'm just setting that equal to this variable guess okay and then what i'm doing is i'm checking to see if guess is equal to secret word and then i'll also say and row is less than turn because we don't want to actively show you um we don't want to actively show you that you got it if you haven't pressed space yet like you have to commit to the guess so that's why i'm adding the and row is less than equal to turn but that's how we're gonna set game over equal to um equal to uh true is basically just have you gotten the correct word in one of your past turns okay so that should be pretty simple that should make sense to you this piece of code is pretty basic but um let's go ahead and check that let's just get the word right real quick we'll do sweet word okay we got right and it's not doing anything i'm not able to type any more letters i'm not able to hit backspace or space which is good because you shouldn't be able to do anything but we want to create some code that'll like tell you hey you won and then also tell you how to like restart the game if you want um so to do that you could put this in a function but it's really basic uh stuff so i'm actually just to put it down here and say if game over actually let's do two different things if game over and turn is greater than six so that means that game is over or turn is equal to six that means the game is over because you didn't get it in time right because we start at zero and then you get zero one two three four five as chances so if turn is equal to six then what i think we should do is we should make a variable called game over text actually let's be harsh let's call it loser text and just say [Music] what we call a huge font dot render this might be too big we might have to make another font but let's just start here and say loser sweet let him know and then we'll say true and why don't we make that uh i don't care just white so we'll make white text and let's go ahead and throw it on the bottom of the screen so screen dot blit uh what i call loser text and let's put it in a good spot which is going to be somewhere down at the bottom 400 by uh i don't know 610 get it out of the way and the other way you can lose is actually or not is not lose it's game over but if game over and turn is less than six then what we want is winner text winner text and we will just say winner and we'll put it in the same spot because these two are never gonna be the same and actually i'm thinking about it we never indicated that game over was true when turn is equal to six so i think what we need to do is actually just change this to if turn equals six and then game over equals true okay so i think this is going to be sweet let's go ahead and check this out in both conditions so let's just say you get the word oh winner text yeah i forgot to change it in both places winner text okay let's go ahead and just get the word right first power nice winner it shows up there it looks fine um now let's see if we can lose the game shouldn't be too hard because we know what to avoid puller sloop pow wow i almost typed the right word that would have been really stupid i'm trying to lose slot and rent i don't know okay and it tells you loser okay sweet um but now what i think we should do is build in some code to where we're to repurpose the space bar so right now if the key is space and it's not game over then we move on to the next turn i'm going to say if you press space and it is game over then what i want us to do is use this space as basically a reset so i want us to go back to the beginning and say turn is equal to zero letters is equal to zero um and then game over is false and then one more thing i want to do is i want to reinitialize the board so up here when we defined it and we had it all emptied out i want to empty it out again when we hit res restart so i want to put it here and that should be all we need to do to get it to restart so sloop space space actually i can just space it out with empty oh but it's gonna be kind of mad if i don't air anything okay let's do power i got it and now game over so i can't type anything else i can't hit backspace but if i hit space it reboots the game except it moves us to the second line let's take a look here and see what's going on and game over i hit space and turn is equal to oh it's because so again order matters um this one should be above because i was hitting space and it was setting turn equal to zero but then it saw game over was no longer true and i had hit space and then it added one to turn so if you get some crazy stuff that makes absolutely no sense when you go through your code line by line chances are you've got something goofy going on in your order okay and it looks like somewhere we're getting something yeah adding to letters as well um so let me see here because this one is a little bit trickier for order we're going to move this whole event type up above event key down okay so that way it's not going to write in order it's not going to write a letter for us it's not going to move a turn forward and it is going to restart the game okay so let's do that power suite it's about drive it's about power and it's still adding one to letters man that is there's minus one you press space we put zero into letters all right well let's go ahead and add something that i think's um super important to this which is not just having a hard-coded word so that's kind of a boring way to play this game is to have the whole word have someone come over and play your game that you hard coded the word a more fun way is going to be if you create a list of all of the words you want to be able to guess from so you know you can have this in a text file you can have it in a python file it's really easy to access if you have a python file so i just made a list made a variable list called words and i'm going to import that file so that file's called words and then i'm going to have the secret word be equal to and here's where it gets a little funky if you're not smart and with your variable naming so from word dot words which is the list that i made i want to use random dot random integer and so i'm going to need to import the random module as well but so i'm going to import the random module and then from the random module i want to use the built-in random integer tool and i want to select a word anywhere in that range so from zero all the way up to the length of the words dot words list and then i'm gonna add minus one because uh that could go out of range by one it could go off to the right by one for your list but what this is doing is it's just gonna at the start of the game randomly grab a word from the list whatever your list of words is you could use a dictionary api and look up all available words that would be pretty wild um i'm just going to do a human curated list just like this and then one more thing if you're going to do it that way then you have to make sure wherever you do your restart logic you also put in um you also put in the uh the secret word look up otherwise you're going to get the same word every time every time you boot up the game okay so this i believe should give us a word that's not um not just power every time so we'll take a look unsupport operand type for list and lists let's take a look and see what i did okay that's in our lookup so the length of word dot words that's right because this is going to give us an integer that's going to give us an integer and then we do a parenthesis okay that should do it i'm gonna have to change that in both places so what i had is i had i had put the minus one inside of the length statement and it needs to be after the length statement is closed so that's right there now let's go ahead and play the game and i'm gonna pull up the words list just so i don't get stuck uh let's try let's try my name okay we get an er at the end is it power that would be wild it is not okay that's a good sign actually then it's probably loser okay we got it let's hit space see if we get a different letter or a different word so we'll do angry we've got an r somewhere in there let's do super oh it was super that's actually pretty wild i got it okay so uh you can see this game is still not fully fleshed out because i i don't have um a whole lot of words i just didn't want to spend a ton of time making a word list because from what you've seen in this video you can take it you can make it your own i hope you like the tutorial a few things just to talk about it that i would consider adding for your game to make it more fun to share with people you could add high score tracking you could add a tracker to see your average so how many turns it typically takes you to solve it you could add all kinds of stuff you could make it um to where you could select how many letters to play so you could play a four letter version a six letter version and make the size of your screen scaled to however many letters you want to play there are so many different ways you could take this you could take the basic wordle game that people know and love and you could expand it out to basically be your own game in a million different ways if there is enough interest if i see enough comments asking for like a follow-up or that fleshed-out version to really take it the extra mile i could do a video but i really recommend you guys as programmers spend some time add the features have a little fun with it and let me know what you decide to go with because i love seeing feedback saying hey i did it i added these things you know how did it what do you think of that so i hope you liked the tutorial if you have any questions about anything you saw here today feel free to leave me a comment i will get back to you as soon as possible if you have found this content or anything else on the channel useful i really appreciate a like on the video subscribe to the channel it helps me out a ton as i'm getting going here and i try to crank out a lot of great content just like this so as always thanks for watching and good luck with your code thanks bye