System Settings
Display
CRT Filter
Barrel distortion + scanlines
Scanlines
Horizontal line overlay
Screen Flicker
Light bulb simulation
Phosphor Glow
Text bloom on tiles
Audio
Sound Effects
Key clicks, tile flips, hits
Ambient Drone
Background hum
Heartbeat
Tension pulse at low guesses
About My Program
Program WORDLE — Lexical Hazard Edition
Author Nicholas Valdez
Date March 2026
Class CS4ALL — Mr. Manuel
Taos High School
This program is a browser-based recreation of the word game Wordle, built entirely in a single HTML file using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with no external libraries.

The player has 6 attempts to guess a hidden 5-letter word. After each guess, tiles reveal whether each letter is correct and in the right position (green), correct but in the wrong position (yellow), or not in the word at all (grey).

The game features a progressive damage system — each wrong guess cracks the screen, tilts the display, corrupts the keyboard, and intensifies visual glitching. Fail all 6 attempts and the screen shuts down like a dying CRT monitor. Guess correctly and the system reboots, clearing all damage for the next round.

Additional features include synthesised audio (mechanical key sounds, ambient drone, heartbeat tension), a SUPERHOT-style boot sequence, a virus takeover tutorial, win streaks, dead pixels, phosphor glow, and a CRT barrel distortion filter — all generated procedurally with no external assets.
signal degraded
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WORDLE_OS — Welcome PID 0x00F2
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system reboot
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Wordle

guess the five-letter word

streak  0
6 attempts remaining