GB-Wordyl

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Overview

GB-Wordyl is a Wordle clone for the Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Color by bbbbbr. It is a mostly re-written and greatly expanded fork of the original Game Boy version by stacksmashing, adding a full dictionary in place of the original's bloom filter, thousands more solution words, multiple dictionary languages, Game Boy Color support and many other features.

The objective is to guess the hidden word within 6 tries. Each guess reveals clues about whether its letters are part of the hidden word. The English version carries the full official answer word list and dictionary, less a couple of cringy words, around 12,900 words in all, packed into a 32K ROM.

Extras include game stats (won, lost and streak), a hard mode in which all revealed letter clues must be used in the next guess, and an auto-fill option that fills in letters already matched in their right place.

Made by: bbbbbr

Controls guide

Guessing

Button and key	Action
D-pad`Arrows`	Move around the on-screen keyboard; it wraps at the edges and repeats when held
A`X`	Add the highlighted letter
B`Z`	Remove a letter
Start`Enter`	Submit the guess
Select`Shift`+A`X`	Move the board cursor right
Select`Shift`+B`Z`	Move the board cursor left
Select`Shift`+Start`Enter`	Auto-fill letters matched in earlier guesses
Select`Shift`	Press three times in a row to open the options menu

Options menu

Button and key	Action
A`X`	Show stats
Right	Turn hard mode on or off (only before the first guess of a round)
Down	Turn auto-fill on or off
Up	Forfeit the round (press Up again to confirm)
Left	Reset stats (press Up to confirm)
B`Z`/Start`Enter`/Select`Shift`	Close the menu

Title and messages

Button and key	Action
Start`Enter`	Leave the title screen
A`X`/B`Z`/Start`Enter`/Select`Shift`	Dismiss the welcome box and other messages

Cheatsheet

The English word lists

Answers: 2,296 possible hidden words
Dictionary: 12,965 words accepted as guesses
Word length: 5 letters, A to Z only
Guesses: 6 per round

Options

Hard mode: Letters marked right in your last guess must stay in place, and letters marked present must be reused; shown as Hard above the keyboard
Auto-fill: After each guess, letters already in their right place are typed in for you
Stats: Played, streak, wins, losses, and least, most and average guesses to win

Tips

A guess that is too short or not in the dictionary is turned away with a message and does not use up one of your six tries, so feel free to test a hunch.
Hard mode only checks your new guess against the clues from the guess just before it, and it can only be switched at the start of a round, before anything has been submitted.
With auto-fill on, use Select + A to hop the board cursor over the letters it typed in, and fill only the gaps.
The keyboard cursor wraps around, so Left from Q jumps straight to P and Up from the top row goes to the bottom row; that is often quicker than crossing the whole keyboard.
Forfeit round on the options menu shows you the answer, but counts the round as a loss and breaks your streak.