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Show HN: Qwertle, yet another daily word game

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Re: Show HN: Qwertle, yet another daily word game

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Post by Kluggy »

I would recommend that you have a gauge next to the play board with the colors and what they mean, ranked from close to far, so it's easy to understand. I actually took bright red to be closer to the answer then dim red/black, so I totally wiffed on the answer. Having that info on the play area would help prevent that mistake.

Re: Show HN: Qwertle, yet another daily word game

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Post by jerpint »

grundoon wrote: post #2

Your game just told me "Ponzi" isn't a word. I feel like Wordle wouldn't have done that, and anyway at least it has the courtesy to say "not in word list" which is very different from the outright lie that your game just told me.

I don’t think the game is trying to lie to you, rather the implementation hasn’t been polished yet, no need to be so harsh

Re: Show HN: Qwertle, yet another daily word game

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Post by Kiro »

grundoon wrote: post #2

Your game just told me "Ponzi" isn't a word. I feel like Wordle wouldn't have done that, and anyway at least it has the courtesy to say "not in word list" which is very different from the outright lie that your game just told me.

Wordle doesn't accept "ponzi" either. It's also not a valid word in Scrabble.

Re: Show HN: Qwertle, yet another daily word game

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Post by binarymax »

grundoon wrote: post #2

Your game just told me "Ponzi" isn't a word. I feel like Wordle wouldn't have done that, and anyway at least it has the courtesy to say "not in word list" which is very different from the outright lie that your game just told me.

Lots of word game dictionaries don’t contain proper nouns. Ponzi is an interesting example because it’s now used as the definitive for what it is, so words like that are hit or miss. Other examples that might or might not be in dictionaries are Kleenex, Xerox, etc.

Re: Show HN: Qwertle, yet another daily word game

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Post by b0r0phyll »

grundoon wrote: post #2

Your game just told me "Ponzi" isn't a word. I feel like Wordle wouldn't have done that, and anyway at least it has the courtesy to say "not in word list" which is very different from the outright lie that your game just told me.

I can change the verbiage to say "not in word list", but FYI it's using the same word list as Wordle so Ponzi would not be accepted there either.

Re: Show HN: Qwertle, yet another daily word game

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Post by b0r0phyll »

pimlottc wrote: post #4

Please don’t use green and red like this, especially with multiple shades of red. It’s a nightmare for colorblind people.

Thanks for the feedback. I thought about colorblindness and figured it wouldn't matter since the important part is the brightness, not the hue. Is that not the case? But anyway that said I'm now kicking myself for not realizing that that doesn't help with differentiating the green for correct... any ideas on how to address this?
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