Happy to hear you like it!
I was actually considering using a ROT-1 cipher instead, but I decided my reason for obfuscating the words was just to hide them so someone who browses the code doesn't see any words by mistake, *and* I wanted to make it easy to modify the words for anyone downloading the game. Maybe someone wants to make their own set of puzzles with a certain theme.
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That explains it. From all entries to the competition, I think it is Wordguesr that suffers the most under the restriction of "no external files". Not only that you cannot use a word list (which then everyone could modify, say, to other languages), but also as a save-state, to save the last solved puzzle position, so next day one could easily continue. Right now, I always forget which words I already solved. :-D