How to play Wordle in Postgres
summary
Shows a working Wordle implementation inside Postgres using psql and SQL only, breaking words into letters and using simple queries and similarity functions to mark greens and yellows. Uses an internal list of 65 five-letter keywords from the database, builds a CLI command wle with a pink menu, and offers code on GitHub. Demo runs inside psql and the game is playable though the PDF recording is static.
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