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Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
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#112I’m not much of a puzzler, I like a crossword or a sudoku and that’s all really - but I didn’t understand what I was meant to do? Edit; oh ok I get it now.. It could be fun but now I know what to do it’s not very challenging. The speed is more determined by the speed I can type that the words. Maybe one letter longer?
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#113Fun game but you should disallow plurals. Overall I’d say use the same word rules as Wordle. Almost all my words were plurals and so were uninteresting, but if that was fixed I would play this!
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#114I think it has some potential, but I found today’s puzzle just too easy. I never play for speed, but even if I was, playing on a iPhone, it missed a lot of touches that I only noticed when I was typing a few letters ahead. So I had to come back, erase what I typed and start over. It was annoying already, but if I was playing for speed, it would be a deal breaker.
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#115I really like it (I play the NYT games daily). The UI is slick. As others have mentioned categories could probably have broader/non-US content but that's easy. The site/format itself is great.
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#116I made a word game while playing with a few ideas, like anonymous usernames and leaderboards. I still poke at some aspects of it. There’s a rare scoring bug I need to isolate and fix. Anyhow, feel free to look. :) https://www.gorillasuit.io/ Edit: coming up with a reasonable algorithm for scoring is far more difficult than it looks. I guess most of the word games floating around don't have scoring for a reason.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
there are some good american and canadian cryptics but i agree, it's a largely uk-centred pastime.
Interesting. Any suggestions? I've looked in the past and didn't have much luck.
lots of suggestions here: https://old.reddit.com/r/crosswords/comments/kqkbrq/what_are...
the new yorker archives are a great place to start https://www.newyorker.com/tag/cryptic-crossword
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#119So I actually like the timer and potential competitive aspect of it. If you want to lean into that, consider adding leaderboards and percentiles.