MYRTLE/64 by THC BBS Game concept by Josh Wardle Twitter : @realTHCBBS Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/thcbbs email : I'm the SysOp, and my site is thcbbs.com. You can guess the e mail but I hope the spamlist scrapers don't. BBS : telnet://vintage.thcbbs.com, port 23. Yes, you can login to an actual BBS and leave me SysOp feedback. I'll eventually get it but the modern contact methods will get to me sooner. Release Notes v1.0.2 2022-02-21 - Fixed the randomness issue - the first word is no longer always DENSE - Added the / key to quit the game early, as the BBS door and other versions already have. - Tweaked the wordlist: Removed two words (one offensive, the other a non- word); added 10 more for a new total of 1,620 words. v1.0.1 2022-02-03 It turns out there is already a game out there called Nerdle. So, I have renamed this game Myrtle! No moaning, we hope. Other than that, no changes. v1.0 2022-02-02 Initial public release. Sorry guys, YOU are my beta team. I bunged this thing together in a few hours, can't expect perfection. Contact info above if you have questions, concerns, marriage proposals... I *think* I have the rules about right. Struggled and fiddled a lot with the Yellow square behaviour. As to the word list, there are 1,612 words. There is only 8kiB allocated for the words so this approaches the limit. The words were acquired from an internet source, a few missing common words were added and quite a few were removed. In general, I have removed all the culturally insensitive words I could find (mostly sexist, with a few vulgar and low key racist terms), and have eschewed but not completely eliminated plurals and derived words, as well as some less common foreign loan words. I've tried to make the wordlist as SFW as I can but please let me know if I missed any. There *are* numerals and ordinals, and there *are* famous place names, but no personal names except where they are also words with other meaning (e.g. "APRIL").