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Using My Programming Skills To Create A Better Wordle

The Coding Sloth β€’ 9:11 minutes β€’ Published 2025-04-02 β€’ YouTube

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Creating Word Tua: A Brain-Rot Twist on Wordle

If you're like many of us, you’ve probably spent some time playing Wordle β€” the addictive word-guessing game that took the internet by storm. But, if you’re anything like me, you might also find yourself frustrated with its sometimes obscure vocabulary and the mental effort it demands. What if there was a version of Wordle designed solely for β€œbrain rot” β€” the kind of fun, silly, and cringe-worthy words that are more about entertainment than education?

Well, that’s exactly what I set out to create. In this post, I’ll walk you through my journey of building Word Tua, a brain-rot-themed Wordle clone that’s as goofy as it is addictive.


Why Build Another Wordle?

Wordle is simple yet engaging: six guesses to find a five-letter word, with color-coded feedback to guide your guesses. However, the game has evolved into a kind of brain nourishment β€” learning new words, expanding your vocabulary, and sometimes feeling like homework.

But on the internet, sometimes what we really want is brain rot β€” lighthearted, meme-worthy content that’s fun without the pressure.

So, I had an idea: why not create my own Wordle, but with only brain rot words? And to make it more interesting, I challenged myself to build it in an hour.


Step 1: Understanding the Rules

The original Wordle rules are straightforward:

  • Guess a five-letter word in six attempts.
  • Letters turn green if correctly placed.
  • Yellow means the letter is in the word but wrong place.
  • Gray means the letter isn’t in the word at all.

For Word Tua, I kept these basics but allowed some twists later on.


Step 2: Programming the Game

I chose to use React with Vite for this project, even though this game could be done without any frameworks. Why React? Because:

  • It could evolve into a library of brain rot games.
  • It was a good opportunity to refresh my React skills.

Using the command npm create vite@latest with a React template, I quickly scaffolded the project.

Next, I tested AI to generate Wordle code automatically. Surprisingly, AI produced a working Wordle clone in under 10 minutes! That said, it was rough around the edges:

  • No smooth animations.
  • No restriction on valid guess words.
  • Keyboard feedback missing.
  • Boring win/loss screens.

But hey, this was a starting point.


Step 3: Adding Brain Rot Words

The heart of Word Tua is its word list β€” full of internet slang, meme words, and pop culture phrases. I found existing β€œbrain rot” word lists online, formatted them with definitions, and stored them in a JSON file.

Examples include:

  • Glaze: To hype or praise someone to a cringe-worthy extent.
  • Gagged: Shocked or amazed.
  • Riz: Charisma or flirting ability (Oxford Word of the Year 2023!).

I also removed the five-letter word limit and added support for multi-word phrases with spaces, making the game more flexible and fun.


Step 4: Enhancing the Experience

To improve animations, I used the Framer Motion library, as my CSS skills are limited. Although AI helped generate animation code β€” a process I dubbed β€œvibe coding” β€” some glitches remained, so I manually fixed what I could.

I added:

  • Dark mode support.
  • Definitions displayed after each word guess to help players learn the slang.
  • No daily play limit – because brain rot should be unlimited!

Step 5: Naming the Game

No game is complete without a catchy name. I asked my Discord community for suggestions, and Word Tua was born β€” a perfect blend of cringe and charm, just like the game itself.


What’s Next for Word Tua?

The game is playable now and open source on GitHub. But I’m still working on:

  • Adding more words.
  • Improving animations and UI.
  • Fixing bugs.

I welcome contributions from anyone who wants to help make Word Tua the ultimate brain rot Wordle experience.


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If this inspired you to dive into programming, check out Brilliant, a learning platform designed to teach coding and problem-solving through interactive lessons. Their courses cover Python, programming fundamentals, and more β€” perfect for beginners and those looking to level up.

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Play Word Tua Today!

Ready to get your brain rot on? Try Word Tua now via the link below β€” and if you want to help improve the game or add your own brain rot words, the source code is available for you to contribute.

Play Word Tua here: [Link to game]

Let’s make Word Tua a fun, silly, and addictive alternative to Wordle β€” because sometimes, we all need a little brain rot.


Thanks for reading, and happy guessing!

β€” Sloth


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This is Wordle. You all probably know it and I suck at it. All right. How about we do trust? Oh my god. Okay. Okay. How about we try crane? I watched that three blue one brown video. There's no way. It's weirdly addictive. Kind of like an upgraded cross word puzzle. However, I don't like this type of whle. Nobody wants this type of wordle anymore. Look at all these complicated words. It's like they want me to learn something new. This is brain nourishment and nobody wants that. If we're on the internet, we want brain rot. So, I had a beautiful idea. It's been a while since I made a simple programming project. Why don't I make my own version of Wordle? Except it's only brain rot words. Good idea, right? Oh, and I'm even going to challenge myself. I'm going to make this game in an hour. All right, let's set up our timer. Now, you're probably wondering, sloth, why did you give yourself an hour? Nobody told you to do that. Nobody asked, bro. And fair enough. You're right. But let me give you some reasons. Number one, the game is pretty easy to make. Number two, I need this video to be entertaining for you all because you all already have brain rot. And number three, I'm going to use AI. Yeah, boohoo AI. Look, I'm not here to prove that I can code or not. If you've seen my past videos, you already know I can't code. There's nothing for me to prove. I know I can't code. You probably can't code either. Just leave me alone. All right, so step one, figure out the rules of Wordle. You get six tries to guess a fiveletter word. Every time you guess, the letters light up. Green equal good. Yellow equal decent. Gray equals terrible. You're just stupid. Step two, programming the game. I think for this game I'm going to use React in V. Bro, you're going to use React for this simple game? Back in my day, we would have done this in C. We could have done this in assembly. All right, chill out there, Unk. Now, I know there's no reason to use a library or framework. You could easily do this with vanilla JavaScript, but the reason why I'm doing this is who knows, maybe this will evolve from a single game to a library of Brain Raw games in the future, kind of like Neo. Fun and also to refresh my React knowledge. All right, let's set this project up. npm create vit at latest. What should we call this? Uh, let's call it brain raw games. and template react. There we go. This is the start of greatness right here. Now it's time for our all- knowing and of course unpaid intern to set things up. I wonder if it understands if I just say create Wordle. Let's see what it can do. Wait, did it just create Wordle in one go? There's no way. Are you kidding me? What's the point of programmers nowadays? What? Well, I guess that's it. We have Wordle, everybody. I'll see you all in the next video. Okay, well, in this case, uh, this didn't even take 10 minutes. So, I'm just going to remove this timer because the hard part is over now. AI got most vertle, but there is some issues. Number one, the animation sucks. We don't get no cool spinning animation for every character. It just pops in and pops out. Uh, number two, you can type any word even if they're not in the list, which makes the game 100 times harder, but maybe I'll keep this. Maybe it's not a bug, but a feature because it's my brain rot version of a game, and I think it's pretty funny. Number three, the keyboard doesn't change depending on what you guess. I'll change that one at least. Uh, number four, the win loss screen is pretty boring. And number five, maybe I'll restrict this to a daily thing like the actual Wordle. I have to think about that. Okay, I decided no daily limit because if I put a limit on that, that's essentially me limiting Brain Raw. Who does that? What am I, your parents? You're all responsible and you can make your own decisions. Who am I to stop you from consuming such highquality content? Anyways, let's handle the lack of animations in our brain raw game. I'm going to use framer motion or motion because I have zero CSS skills. If you do web development, you know what this is. It's a really nice library that helps you add animations to your websites. I'll come back once I finish adding that stuff. So, be right back. Okay, fellow programmers, let me show you how to program in 2025. If you're deep into tech Twitter, you've seen this disease called vibe coding, or as I like to call it, laziness. My favorite. It's really simple. All you do is paste the problems you have in your life into AI and let AI fix everything for you. You don't even have to know how to code nowadays. And if you're a manager, a coach, or even a parent, vibe coding is better for you because you have experience telling people how much of a failure they are. Because if AI messes up, you just tell them, "Hey, you're a failure. Fix this and AI will fix it for you. It's beautiful. The future is sure looking great. I'm excited to see the future of program." Okay, so I vibe coded some animations and it's actually not that bad is what you think at first. If you take a closer look, maximum update depth exceeded. Nice little error. Let's not worry about that. And if I start a new game, uh, yeah, it looks like I can't exactly vibe code animations. It tried its best, but I'm still going to have to do this, unfortunately. I'm going to leave it as is. Let's move on to some other stuff. I'm going to remove this word limit and we're going to move on to step three, the brain rot word list. I'm going to go find a list of brain rot words. I'm going to properly format them so we get the word and the definition and then we're adding that to the game. I'm adding the definition because some people might not know what these words mean. And so, I'm going to do my part and properly educate those people in the art of brain rot. You're welcome. Let's see if a brain rot word list even exists. Wow, I can't believe it does. There's multiple of them. Okay, so I'm going to properly format these words. In the meantime, Editor Sloth is going to educate you with some brain raw words. Enjoy. Let's start with glaze. To hype, praise, or compliment someone so much that it becomes annoying or cringe-worthy. Gagged, shocked, amazed, or at a loss for words. Riz, a short way to say charisma, and refers to someone's flirting ability. Wait, Oxford University Press 2023 word of the year. Wait, excuse me? Wait, this is real? Why? And that, my friends, was brain rot with sloth. Okay, so I properly formatted the words. I gave it three properties, the word, definition, and length. And I put it all in a words.json file. So our game is just going to read from this file. But check it out. Look what we got so far. Touch grass, slaps, simp. We got all the good stuff. Don't worry, the list is not done yet. We still have a lot more words to add. And I also changed the word length, so the words can be any length now. And I also added a space feature. So, if it's not a word, but a sentence, then it'll have spaces in between them. I think that's all. And I am excited to show you Brain Raw Wordle. Yeah, this is so stupid. Okay, but now that we have a working version of the game, I can't just call this evil Wordle. We have to come up with something original, something brain rot worthy. And I think I know just the place that has enough brain rot. My Discord server. So, let me just ask them if they have any good ideas. Let's see what they say. And I think I know just the place that has enough brain word to. We're going to call this word tula. It's the right amount of brain rot and cringe. It's great. Okay, so we have the name. The game works basically. I mean, check this out. Wait, what brain rot word is this? Sloth bites. What's the definition? Oh, you don't know what sloth bites is? What? Sloth Bites is my weekly newsletter where I share bite-siz programming information to make you, yes you, a better programmer. And the best part about it, it's free. All you have to do is give me your email. I won't do anything with it. I promise. Okay, so all that's left now is I'm going to add more words to it. I'm going to make the animations worse, more dramatic, and I'm going to change the winning game over screen, and the game should be ready soon. The public will be blessed by my creation. Now, some of you might be wondering, why don't you show yourself programming? And it's a fair question. The reason is because most programming sessions, I'm just doing stuff like this. LeBron, LeBron, LeBron, James. [Music] Yeah, you probably don't want to see that. I don't want to see that. This video is terrible as is. All right, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Word Tua. Yeah, the animations are beautiful. The game over in windscreen peak added dark mode. I also added the definition to make the game a little bit easier for you all. I added some more words to the list. There's a lot of bugs I still have to fix. If you want to help me, link in the description. I'm making this open source. So, let's try to make this game better than Wordle. That'd be funny. Everything's done. We're all set. I mean, look how sick this is. Brilliant. What? When did this become brain rot? What's the definition here? The sponsor of today's video. Oh, that was pretty smooth, huh? Brilliant is a learning platform where you learn by doing with thousands of interactive lessons in math, data analysis, programming, and AI. Brilliant is a learning platform that's designed to be effective. Each lesson is filled with hands-on problem solving that lets you play with concepts, a method that's proven to be six times more effective than watching lecture videos. Plus, all the content on Brilliant is crafted by an award-winning team of teachers, researchers, and professionals from MIT, Caltech, Duke, Microsoft, Google, and more. And these lessons will also help you build your critical thinking skills because you're going to be problem solving, not memorizing. Look, a lot of you probably want to learn how to code to make masterpieces like Word TUA. Well, luckily for you, Brilliant has a lot of programming courses. They have courses for Python where you can start building programs on day one with their built-in drag and drop editor. You can also learn essential coding fundamentals from loops and variables to nesting and conditionals. And Brilliant will also help you think like a programmer where you'll start writing complex programs to build games and applications. So if you'd like to try everything Brilliant has to offer for free for a full 30 days, visit brilliant.org/thecoding sloth or scan the QR code on the screen. You can also click the link in the description. And if you scan the QR code or click the link, you'll get a 20% off an annual premium subscription. Okay, so uh Word Tua is done. You can play it right now. Link in the description. If you want to improve Word Tua, I'll leave the code there, too. I'm going to make this an open source project. We can make this a better version of Wordle. That'd be hilarious. If you have any Brain Raw words, you can also add them in there. Have fun with Brain Rot. I