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Re: Show HN: One More Letter

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Post by what » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 1:37 AM UTC

shshsjsj wrote: post #18

propter_hoc wrote: post #16

I tried "KITERS" and "TRIKES" at the 5 letter level, but the app specifically wanted "STRIKE." It kinda demoralized me to have come up with two answers and not be able to proceed, I realized that it wasn't worth trying to guess before the clue came up so I quit out.

wtf is kiters?

People flying kites?

Re: Show HN: One More Letter

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Post by ryhanshannon » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 1:42 AM UTC

propter_hoc wrote: post #16

I tried "KITERS" and "TRIKES" at the 5 letter level, but the app specifically wanted "STRIKE." It kinda demoralized me to have come up with two answers and not be able to proceed, I realized that it wasn't worth trying to guess before the clue came up so I quit out.

Same thing here happened with 'irks' and 'risk'

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Post by waylandsmithers » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 2:03 AM UTC

Hey this is a great game. Nice work

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Post by jadenzaleski » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 2:13 AM UTC

Unlike everyone else here, I enjoyed this. A good hit for the day, see you tmrw

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Post by badc0ffee » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 2:14 AM UTC

MARC? MARCEL? Come on

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Post by _dragonguy » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 2:15 AM UTC

Very fun!!

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Post by museshare » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 2:18 AM UTC

This is a spiritual descendant of Wordle, cool idea!

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Post by ventana » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 2:22 AM UTC

jagged-chisel wrote: post #15

"Today's run is over" I hate games of this kind. "You failed. Try again tomorrow." I won't be back. It wasn't enough fun to remember. And I'm not likely to upvote because of these reasons (so it won't appear in my 'upvoted submissions')

My reaction too, but then I found the button to try the previous days, and it was enough for me to figure out the game :)

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Post by cure_42 » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 2:24 AM UTC

shshsjsj wrote: post #19

jagged-chisel wrote: post #15

"Today's run is over" I hate games of this kind. "You failed. Try again tomorrow." I won't be back. It wasn't enough fun to remember. And I'm not likely to upvote because of these reasons (so it won't appear in my 'upvoted submissions')

[flagged]

Cringe

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Post by scubbo » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 2:26 AM UTC

I guess I'll check back later and try to remember that I can't have the tab open in the background? :)

EDIT: OK, I found the previous puzzles link. Cute! Though I got a bug on the second one - (ROT13 for spoilers) apparently the answer was "tenavgr" but I put in "grnevat" and it still accepted it (but other prompts had not accepted alternate-but-valid words)