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Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?

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Post by sharkweek »

binarymax wrote: post #135
FlamingMoe wrote: post #134

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"a timer (urgency) is usually not a very good idea for thinky games" 100% agree. I hate the timer on the NY Times mini puzzle. I like these types of simple games for unwinding, and a timer makes it more stressful.

Contrarily, I love the mini timer, because it’s something to beat. The mini is too easy of a puzzle. The NYT crossword is more for the thinking type - it also has a timer, but its less in your face and I don’t feel the pressure.

I agree - me and several friends had a rolling text convo where we’d share our mini times each day in a fun daily competition.

Has since faded but anytime I think about it I like to load up the puzzle app and do it.

Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?

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Post by linsomniac »

tolien wrote: post #131
linsomniac wrote: post #11

A coworker and my wife and I have recently been really enjoying https://bracket.city which is a crossword-clue inspired word game with daily puzzles. It does take a little while to figure out, I'd recommend starting off asking for hints fairly often to decrease frustration, but after a couple weeks my wife and I are on a streak of 3 days of scoring 100.

I'll quite often wind up solving this by a sort of parallel construction, as in rather than getting the hint I can work out what word is supposed to be there based on what's around it. Some of the clues can be really cryptic.

Yes, that is the real trick when you get stuck is to start constructing the clues that it will eventually become.

Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?

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Post by hnlmorg »

binarymax wrote: post #135
FlamingMoe wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"a timer (urgency) is usually not a very good idea for thinky games" 100% agree. I hate the timer on the NY Times mini puzzle. I like these types of simple games for unwinding, and a timer makes it more stressful.

Contrarily, I love the mini timer, because it’s something to beat. The mini is too easy of a puzzle. The NYT crossword is more for the thinking type - it also has a timer, but its less in your face and I don’t feel the pressure.

You can still have that with a count up timer (like the GP suggested) but then you don’t put people off like myself who don’t want to be timed out of games

Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?

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Post by [deleted] »

zem wrote: post #72
angry_moose wrote: post #64

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It cuts both ways. Cryptic Crosswords are almost impenetrable from the US as they're so deep in UK specific words, spellings, and trivia.

there are some good american and canadian cryptics but i agree, it's a largely uk-centred pastime.

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Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?

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Post by MalcolmDwyer »

angry_moose wrote: post #74
zem wrote: post #72

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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.

https://www.minutecryptic.com/
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