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Re: Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically

#31

Post by irq-1 » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 1:39 PM UTC

damiannn wrote: post #21

steinvakt2 wrote: post #19

This, as well as the NYT game, is heavily inspired by https://www.timdle.com ?

i was HEAVILY inspired by wordle, wanted to create a daily game with similar mechanics. This concept came to my mind, but yeah, after it came to my mind i checked if something like that already exists and bumped into thing you just posted. UX seemed kinda complicated to my, my idea was to make it as simple as possible, drag & drop, so people can play it while commuting daily (tram, metro, bus), and will take like 2 m…

Should have 5+ puzzles to do on the first day, so people can play enough to remember it. (They can be the same 5 static puzzles.)

Re: Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically

#32

Post by Error403agent » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 1:41 PM UTC

Fun

Re: Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically

#33

Post by 0x1da49 » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 1:51 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically

#34

Post by damiannn » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 1:56 PM UTC

Error403agent wrote: post #32

Fun

thanks

Re: Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically

#35

Post by coder97 » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 1:56 PM UTC

Nice game. I can see myself playing this daily.

How do you plan to feed the questions? Is it with AI or manual work?

Re: Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically

#36

Post by lgcmo » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 1:56 PM UTC

jordanscales wrote: post #5

Nice work! I'd consider ditching the AI art though, it was distracting.

I believe pulling art/media from Wikipedia would be cooler and less controversial. I also believe the licensing allows it.

Re: Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically

#37

Post by emberfiend » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 1:59 PM UTC

cool game, maybe consider removing the eternally looping animation in the header, it's pretty visually distracting

Re: Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically

#38

Post by damiannn » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 2:02 PM UTC

coder97 wrote: post #35

Nice game. I can see myself playing this daily. How do you plan to feed the questions? Is it with AI or manual work?

AI - I created a custom prompt to generate those event, so that the difficulty is just right, not that easy, but not that hard also. Took some iterations to polish it, now it kinda feels just right.

Same with the image generation - custom prompt so they have this specific style.

Re: Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically

#39

Post by MrDunham » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 2:03 PM UTC

emberfiend wrote: post #37

cool game, maybe consider removing the eternally looping animation in the header, it's pretty visually distracting

Or loop once/twice... it's a fun effect, but when endless I agree that it's distracting

Re: Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically

#40

Post by everyone » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 2:03 PM UTC

awesome! but the one per day thing kills it for me.. I want to play like 10 in a row and then forget about it for a few months.