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Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game

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Post by rfl890 »

klyrs wrote: post #46
xandrius wrote: post #17

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> Not to be negative or anything but [pure shade] I'm gonna bet that my mom has had a website since before you were born*. She was taking fortran classes in the 60s. Your ageist attitude is pretty gross. So what if she had help? Another bet, you can't program without the help of online resources and/or a chatbot either. * given the dates on your resume, there's a very good chance I'm correct in this

What a spiteful comment over a little skepticism

Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game

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Post by yosefk »

xandrius wrote: post #17

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It's subjective how rewarding it is but you can definitely guess the word if you know, well, words, by doing a binary search and narrowing down the first letters. I have an uneasy relationship with puzzles and I'm not a native speaker but this to me is about as fun and about as infuriating as Wordle or Semantle (try the latter if you didn't already!)

Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game

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Post by sverhagen »

tarl0s wrote: post #49
Kiro wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> About the game: somewhat fun but if you don't know the word, that's it. No really any way to figure out in a rewarding way. What does this mean? You could say the same thing about Wordle.

I guessed many words I didn't know on Wordle (not a native English speaker), if you are able to reduce enough the letters search space there's going to be only a few options that e.g. make sense phonetically.

This was my problem too. If there was a scoring system, it might make sense to buy letters against your score, to help you forward once you're stuck. I got stuck. What the heck goes between Volatile and Vole?

Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game

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Post by sahmeepee »

tartakovsky wrote: post #52
dvh wrote: post #51

I found Grandma's Word in 25 guesses https://grandmasword.com It was volcano but I only discovered it after finding that Android autocorrect can suggest a word for me.

spoiler alert -- no need to share the answer, it takes the fun away for others

I was just relieved when it wasn't vulva
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