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Re: Show HN: MidWord – A Word-Guessing Game

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Post by jmpavlec »

A little presumptuous to say it is the world's "favorite" guessing game... But I had fun for a few words. It was nice you could press the enter key on mobile and keep the keyboard up.

Are you thinking of doing a daily word? Or just a random dictionary word each time you refresh?

Re: Show HN: MidWord – A Word-Guessing Game

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Post by minaguib »

jmpavlec wrote: post #2

A little presumptuous to say it is the world's "favorite" guessing game... But I had fun for a few words. It was nice you could press the enter key on mobile and keep the keyboard up. Are you thinking of doing a daily word? Or just a random dictionary word each time you refresh?

It's a random word each game (but the URL is shareable with a friend to play the same word).

TBH I've had it up as-is for a decade as a classical web app, but just converted it to a frontend-only app to eliminate most hosting costs.

Re: Show HN: MidWord – A Word-Guessing Game

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Post by minaguib »

pardner wrote: post #6

Nicely implemented screen layout. Curious if you've thought of reporting metrics showing how many guesses it's taking people? (I got 'volatile' in 9)

I have a decade's worth of guess statistics per word.

Unfortunately, I just converted it to a frontend-only app to eliminate hosting costs, so I have no good location to keep tracking these stats.

Theoretically, "Oxford English Dictionary estimates that there are around 171,476 words currently in use in the English language", the log2() of which is around 17.38 - I have no historical data for 'volatile'

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