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This was posted on HN about a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43774702

I made a multi-player (up to 12 players) Scrabble-like game. Everyone submits their turn at the same time so there are no long waits between turns. It's a "capture territory with w…

If anyone would like to try this highest-scoring boggle board to see how many words you can get you can try it here: http://crosswordislandhopper.com/playGob?pg=BYZX&bd=KOHGVZRV...…

Also this was a somewhat similar effort to yours, to create the Common English Lexicon word list that can be used on the word game site woogles.io: https://github.com/Fj00/CEL

I made a root comment before seeing this one but here's my shot at answering this question with the data / player base that I have: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40902840

I also developed a word search game and was interested in a methodology for determining what words are "reasonably findable". The best I could come up without going through the dic…

It's an interesting game, I think. So far I haven't quite reached the point of satisfying gameplay as I keep getting caught in traps like forgetting that words need to go down, not…

ThePowerOfFuet should have googled it. Not sure where they got the idea that Costco is a Canadian company.

Does anyone know why there would be multiple bots (I assume) GETting the URL in the post repeatedly? I.e. there are multiple IP addresses from which I have been getting GET request…

Two years ago my pandemic project was an online multi-player variant of Scrabble named Crossword Island Hopper where you capture territory by placing words on a board. It proved to…

I like games like Scrabble and Bananagrams. I like games where capturing territory is part of the strategy. This is a game that attempts to combine elements of both. I've been play…