Fairly simple android word game

Overview

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Fairly simple android word game.

Gurgle Help

  • Multiple coloured themes
  • Multiple languages
  • Look up word meaning

Guess those words

Tap letters on the keyboard to enter a guess. Use the Back key to backspace. When you have finished a guess, tap the Enter key. If you have guessed the word correctly, tap the Gurgle icon for the definition of the word.

Display colours

Letters which are in the word but in the wrong place will turn yellow. If they are in the right place they will turn green. If they are not in the word they will turn grey. Keep trying until you have guessed the word. The display will start again from the top if you run out of guesses.

Refresh

Tap the Refresh button in the toolbar to clear the display and guess another word. Words are chosen at random from a list, and are checked that they haven't been used recently.

Meaning

Tap the word once it has been guessed to display the meaning.

Themes

Select coloured theme from the Theme button in the toolbar.

Language

Select Language from the menu.

Cheat

Use my Crossword or WordleSolver app to cheat.

Comments
  • [Feature request] add other languages

    [Feature request] add other languages

    Nice game, I was wondering if it was possible to add more languages for example integrating the possibility to take words from an external dictionary (like quickdic).

    opened by darhma 24
  • Update French.txt

    Update French.txt

    I saw your recent commit : thanks for adding the French language ! In the file, there are a lot of uncommon words (or words I didn't know), which made the game sometimes complicated and forced to find the word at random. I propose a correction with a list of more "common" words (which can probably be modified).


    Based on the "Lexique" v3.83 database (http://www.lexique.org) (140 000 words)

    Removal of words with less or more than 5 letters (nblettres=5) Removal of words that contain quotes or dashes Removal of accents / elements (à->a / ç->c / ê->e ...) Removal of duplicates (the one with the highest total frequency of occurrence is kept) Removal of uncommon words (total frequency of occurrence <0.5) or poorly known words (deflem<80)

    Result: 3238 words

    opened by A-Nicoladie 8
  • Feature request: pause Game / Save status

    Feature request: pause Game / Save status

    In cases where you are interrupted by something else, it might me nice to optionally save the current Game to continue later. That could be by a general option to always save when you leave the game, or by a direct save button on the interface you have to tap on before leaving or switching apps. btw. thanks for the German language add ;-)

    opened by lintux 6
  • Info messages appear white-on-white on Android 13

    Info messages appear white-on-white on Android 13

    Version: 1.13 Repo: F-Droid

    Since upgrading to Android 13 the app's info messages show as white-on-white text.

    I've tried fiddling with changing the theme and other in-app color settings to no effect.

    gurgle_white-on-white

    PS Love the game; thanks for creating and maintaining it!

    opened by gropius365 5
  • Duplicated letters not accounted for correctly

    Duplicated letters not accounted for correctly

    If a letter appear multiple times, it may show up yellow, even if duplicates are all on correct places:

    image

    The last A on 1st and 2nd line should be gray, because other occurrences are already used.

    opened by tatref 5
  • Retain accents in dictionaries

    Retain accents in dictionaries

    This will help get the correct dictionary entries for languages that use accents, e.g. French. For example in the case of ELIRE, Wiktionary should be searched for élire instead of elire. The virtual keyboard and word display would remain as they are now, without accents.

    Of course this would require updating the dictionary to contain the accents and remove the accents when testing whether a word is valid.

    This is probably a lot of programming effort for little gain but it would be nice to have so I'm putting it here.

    opened by sotpapathe 4
  • Impossible to play on certain aspect ratios

    Impossible to play on certain aspect ratios

    Screenshot_20220403-003128_Gurgle

    The keyboard does not transform properly to accomodate unexpected aspect ratios. This issue was also in 1.07 (first image), but oddly, this second instance (second image) did NOT happen on 1.07. It looked fine on this other screen until I updated:

    Screenshot_20220403-003144_Gurgle

    opened by Millennium-Eagle 4
  • Use native keyboard

    Use native keyboard

    The keys on the built-in keyboard are in an awkward place at the center of the screen. Being able to use the native keyboard of the user's choice would be much more comfortable.

    opened by fuzxi 4
  • Locking Letters

    Locking Letters

    Issue: When trialing various combinations of letters around letters you know are correct - it becomes tedious having to delete all 5 including the correct letters to attempt different combinations.

    Proposal: Setting 'locked' letters which stay on the board. Typing new letters fills the blanks while ignoring the locked ones. Locking could be done through a letter drag-and-drop to the position you want (reversible by dragging them back off), or by a toggle switch above the keyboard when you get to the desired position of a letter you want fixed. Additionally, having blanks between known letters will make it easier to visualize possible combinations: " F L _ I _ " rather than having to fill each slot with a letter.

    P.S. I picked up the game yesterday and couldn't put it down since. <3

    opened by fluidicice 3
  • Feature request: Get meaning of words prior to correct guess

    Feature request: Get meaning of words prior to correct guess

    Would it be possible to get the meaning of guessed incorrect words prior to having guessed the correct word? Not for impatient players, but to allow them to get the meaning of those guesses that have scrolled out of screen.

    opened by bovergaauw 3
  • Big screen, tiny UI

    Big screen, tiny UI

    Could you please consider making the UI scale with device size? I have some beefy fingers and these buttons are tiny! Thanks for a nice offline game to play - with this change, it should be quite fun!

    opened by onkoe 3
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