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WordleBot

By Ryan · April 25, 2026

A PHP Discord bot that parses shared Wordle results with pattern matching, tracks performance over time, and turns daily puzzle posts into lightweight community stats and achievements.

Bot Discord Gaming Pattern Matching
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Grepbot

By Ryan · April 25, 2026

A game-community bot project that started as alliance coordination tooling and grew into a multi-room assistant fed by live game data.

Bot Framework Gaming PHP Programming
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