[joek1301]

The original WORDLE also used minified JavaScript, but there are some resources on reverse engineering it, if all you're interested is learning how the words are picked [1].

[1]: https://reichel.dev/blog/reverse-engineering-wordle.html

[dankwizard]

It isn't that complex - If you compare the word list in source to the word each day, you'll see that it is just using the list in order.

[throwaway81523]

Posting this in case anyone is interested, and for my own future reference:

https://hackaday.com/2022/02/08/wordle-reverse-engineering-a...

[throwaway81523]

Ah ok thanks both of you, that suffices. I wondered why the word list was in such a weird order. Any idea if the permutation from alphabetical order is something simple? That would allow membership testing by binary search instead of needing an extra data structure.