What professional sports team has the letters 'P', 'R', 'U', 'S', 'S'?
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?
#82Product manager ex. game designer with a number of puzzle/word game in operation here. - Having a timer (urgency) is usually not a very good idea for thinky games. If you insist on having a timer consider making it count upwards. - Additionally as other commenters mentioned is the game is a time trial it needs an explicit “Start” button. Also stop the timer when user is not playing e.g. reading the rules. - There’s n…
Agree that timers suck the fun out of a game like this. I avoid any solitaire game with a timer for example.
Some crossword people like having their timers (see NYT Games app for example), but as I’ve mentioned the timers are counting up, not triggering any negative conditions, and can be turned off completely.
Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
#83What professional sports team has the letters 'P', 'R', 'U', 'S', 'S'?
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Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
#84Boring and derivative.
Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
#85What professional sports team has the letters 'P', 'R', 'U', 'S', 'S'?
It was spurs that made me think it was UK centric, lions as well is valid for England too
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#87Might want to have an international version too?
I don't know US sport teams.
Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
#88Product manager ex. game designer with a number of puzzle/word game in operation here. - Having a timer (urgency) is usually not a very good idea for thinky games. If you insist on having a timer consider making it count upwards. - Additionally as other commenters mentioned is the game is a time trial it needs an explicit “Start” button. Also stop the timer when user is not playing e.g. reading the rules. - There’s n…
> and even then being US-centric will work.
The world has sadly changed a lot in recent months.
Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
#89Fun! 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
I have a Wordle-type clone I'm toying with and getting it to wrangle the correct letters is a harder problem than it seems. Hopefully you're able to streamline your design process so it's as painless as possible!
Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
#90Nice 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.
These are short little words that are not uncommon even if you are not familiar with sportsball teams. If you struggled unscrambling these words, I'd suggest your vocab is just in dire need of expansion.