A free wordle game — play it in your browser, no install. Daily Wordle-style game for astronomical objects
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Controls: Type the full identifier: catalogue prefix (M, NGC, IC, Mel, Cr
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Open the live demo Source on GitHubA daily Wordle-style game for astronomical catalogue identifiers. Each day there is one target object from the Messier, NGC, IC, Melotte, Collinder, Caldwell or Barnard catalogues; you get six guesses to find its identifier, e.g. M31, NGC42, Mel25 or NGC1023A.
C or B), the number without leading zeros, plus a component letter if the object has one. Tiles left empty count as blanks.
by: the Andromeda Galaxy is M31, and guessing NGC224 tells you so.
played before then keeps the zero-padded spelling it was played in (NGC0042).
right place, yellow = elsewhere in the identifier, grey = absent.
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