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