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wordle-turtle

Animated gif of the Turtle character

A Firefox extension that came to me in a dream.

Explanation

I do the Wordle every morning right when I wake up. While I was still dreaming, my brain somehow mish-mashed "Wordle" together with the phrase "Turtle, Turtle" from The Master of Disguise.

I imagined a Firefox extension that would replace every letter tile with an animated gif of Dana Carvey as the turtle character.

I woke up laughing, so I sat down and prototyped it. It works poorly (using the JavaScript setTimeout function blindly) and will probably break soon, but I gave myself a good chuckle.

Results

A before-and-after picture showing the use of the wordle-turtle Firefox Extension

Installation

If you want to install this locally for fun:

  1. Clone this repository.
  2. Open Firefox.
  3. Type about:debugging into the URL bar and hit enter.
  4. Click the This Firefox link on the left-hand menu.
  5. Under the Temporary Extensions section, click Load Temporary Add-on.
  6. When your file browser pops up to load the extension, find the manifest.json file from this repo and click on it.
  7. Go to the New York Times' Wordle site
  8. Enjoy! Unless it doesn't work, in which case 🤷...

Licenses

All of the pictures (svg, png, and gif images) in this repository are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon these images non-commercially, as long as they credit me and license their new creations under the identical terms.

The code is licensed under the GPLv3.