Five-Letter Word

A Skill Harbor house build: a solo word guessing game refereed by your own Muse, right in chat. Your assistant picks one common five-letter word in the language of your conversation, French or English, from a curated everyday vocabulary, and seals it in a game state file before your first guess. You get 6 valid guesses to find it. There is no starting category, no hint to buy, and no help beyond the feedback itself: every guess has to earn its information. Games are unlimited, and a new one can start whenever you want. The feedback is exact, and its hardest case is settled in writing: duplicate letters. Each valid guess is answered with one fixed grid: your five letters, then five squares, green for a letter in the right place, yellow for a letter present elsewhere, grey for an absent letter, then the colour counts and your guess counter. The squares are computed in two passes, greens first, each one consuming its occurrence of the target word, then yellows from left to right only while an unconsumed occurrence remains. A letter is therefore never credited more times in one guess than it actually appears in the word, and a grey square on a repeated letter means fully counted, never a false claim that the letter is absent. The frame stays firm in the ways that keep the game honest. A guess that is not a real word of the game's language, has the wrong length, contains non-letters, or repeats an earlier guess is rejected in one sentence, consumes nothing, and returns no letter feedback at all, so it teaches nothing and costs nothing, and you simply propose again in the same turn. When your assistant doubts whether a word exists, the doubt benefits you. A win scores (7 minus the winning guess number) times 20, a loss or an abandon scores 0, and consecutive wins build a streak that persists in your own data folder, with your full game history and your best streak, always read from the file rather than from memory. The listing is free under the Skill Harbor House License: free to use for yourself and in your own projects, all rights reserved, no redistribution or resale, and it is not open source. There are no prerequisites at all: no account, no connection, no group, nothing to configure. The files are plain Markdown you can read before installing, and the game data the skill creates, the sealed state and your scores, lives in a data folder you own, never inside the skill.