Guess the Secret Word

A word guessing game that runs on web-browsers. A web-server manages the game play.

How to play?

• When the game starts, a list of words are shown to the player.
• Server picks one of the words in the list as the secret word, which is unknown to the player.
• The player picks a word from the list as a guess.
• If the guess is correct, the player wins.
• If the guess is wrong, a count of common letters between the secret and the guess words is shown.

For instructions to setup the game server see Run Game Server. Open the game page on a web browser at http://localhost:3000/.

Technical details

• The game server is built on JS and runs on NodeJS.
• The game page uses html and CSS.
• The game server works for multiple players.
• The game is case-insensitivity.

External libraries

• express.js
• cookie-parser

Run Game Server

• Download this repository.
• Open folder word-guessing-game/ from the repository on terminal.
• Run npm install and then node server.js.

Customize words

• Add more words to words.js.
• All words in the file should be of the same length.

Game screen caps

Game Start

Game Play

End of Game