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The Flordle home screen with a birthday note and the week's puzzles
A Flordle puzzle mid-guess, with letters scored green and yellow
The clue letters unscrambling to spell Sweeney Todd
A week of rigged puzzles, and the clue letters that spelled out the real gift.

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Flordle

A custom Wordle clone as a birthday gift.

2023 Solo build

I taught myself HTML, CSS, and plain JavaScript by building my girlfriend (now wife, Flo) a birthday present. It’s a Wordle clone, a new “Flordle” every day for a week, but the puzzles were rigged. Certain letters from each day’s word were hers to collect, and by the end of the week they unscrambled into “Sweeney Todd.” That was the real gift: tickets to the show.