Workshop › Wordle-style Word Guess › Step 15 of 26

Enter sends the guess

What we are doing

Enter with five letters typed turns them into a finished guess: { word, marks } goes into the guesses list and typing starts again from empty.

```js
let guesses // the finished guesses, each { word, marks }

  guesses = []

  else if (key === 'Enter' && current.length === 5 && guesses.length < TRIES) {
    guesses.push({ word: current, marks: score(current, answer) })
    current = ''
  }

  if (key === 'Enter' || key === 'Backspace' || /^[a-z]$/.test(key)) {
```

What it means

• guesses starts as an empty array in reset.
• A third else if in type: Enter, five letters, and a try left.
• push adds { word: current, marks: score(current, answer) } at the end of the list, then current is emptied.
• The listener passes Enter on too.

Your turn

1. Under let answer, write let guesses ...; in reset, under the answer line, write guesses = [].
2. In type, add the Enter else if block at the end.
3. In the listener, add key === 'Enter' || to the if. Press Run.

Skills: Keyboard and mouse input, Arrays and objects

← Right letter, wrong place Colour the guesses →

All steps

1. The canvas and the pen
2. Paint the background
3. A function that draws
4. A row of five tiles
5. Six rows
6. Draw again and again
7. The typed letters
8. Type with the keyboard
9. Show the letters
10. Backspace
11. Leave shortcuts alone
12. A secret word
13. Right letter, right place
14. Right letter, wrong place
15. Enter sends the guess
16. Colour the guesses
17. Winning and losing
18. A message line
19. Where the keys go
20. Draw the keyboard
21. Tap a key
22. Enter and Delete keys
23. Keys that remember
24. Keep statistics
25. Show the statistics
26. Build it yourself: only real words