Wordy Champions

Wordle is a solo game. Wordy Champions makes it a race. Two to eight players get the same five-letter word each round and have six guesses and three minutes to solve it. Fewest guesses wins the round, fastest breaks the tie, and points add up over six rounds. It launches from Discord with the /wordy command through Steward, or from a four-letter code on the web.

Each match is one Cloudflare Durable Object. The object owns the state in SQLite storage, holds every player's WebSocket, and uses one alarm for the round clock and the pause between rounds. The rules are a pure TypeScript package: word lists, tile marking, scoring, and the round state machine, with no network code.

The object itself comes from match-core, the engine I pulled out of Meridian. A game supplies an adapter (create, apply, view, deadline, expire) and the engine handles seats, reconnects, the lobby, launch tokens, and the result webhook. Wordy is the second game on it.

The client is Vite and React. Other players show as colour rows only, so nobody can read a word off a neighbour's board.

Two point sources. Placement points work like a kart race: first to solve gets the most. Guess points reward solving in fewer tries. A slow solve in two guesses can still beat a fast solve in five.

The host starts the match. Nothing starts on its own. The host sets the table size on the web and presses Start when everyone is in.

Bots exist only for tests. The Worker refuses bots unless a test flag is set, so a production match is always humans. Locally, one person can play a whole match against solver bots.

One browser test plays a full match. Two headless browsers create a match, join, guess, and reach the final standings against the real Worker runtime.