Quick UI suggestion: Let users playing on desktop type the letters.
I spent several seconds trying to click on the "Build your word here" box to put the cursor there
Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
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Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
#52Nice concept, but US-centric short/slang sports teams' names is a bit misjudged as the very first puzzle when introducing your new game to an international audience. I solved them because they're (mostly) words rather than them having meaning to me.
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Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
#53Nice concept, but US-centric short/slang sports teams' names is a bit misjudged as the very first puzzle when introducing your new game to an international audience. I solved them because they're (mostly) words rather than them having meaning to me.
Same complaint. Also, not to poke fun at us too hard but there's probably less sports fans here than the average population :) Really like the idea though.
For those of you who are put off from trying the game by the category for today’s puzzle being sports, note there are other puzzles from prior days with more general topics.
Click the calendar icon at top of page for the archive.
Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
#54Well done. 2 observations: when pressing the letters quickly it does not register them properly. I don't understand why the 5 letter limit.
Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
#55Fun 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!
Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
#56I like it!
Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
#57The top hint makes it bit too easy, but I guess if there’s only multiple valid words you need to narrow it down by some prompt
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#58Fun! I look forward to seeing what future categories and words are. Do you have to manually curate them each day? How big is your backlog? Is there a way to automate it?
thanks a lot :) yes my friend and I are designing the categories and the words manually with a tiny bit of help from AI tools but you can't fully trust them as they try to sneak in 6 and 4 letter words
Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
#59Could you share how you pick each day's words?
we design them ourselves a bit of a manual process but quite fun
Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
#60I like the calendar where you can go back to play other days. Enhancement request: would be nice for this to have an indicator of which days you have already played.
that's a great point! thanks a lot