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Re: Show HN: Can you beat my dad at Scrabble?

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Post by tobr »

danieltait wrote: post #25
whutno wrote: post #19

I tried playing "VERB" with the "V" on the first triple letter tile, but when I tapped Submit, nothing happened. This was on the current daily puzzle. Is this a bug or am I doing it wrong?

You have to start the word in the first square. I've just added an error message to highlight that when you try submit. Thanks for the feedback!

Some unstated things that I didn’t understand, if it helps make the game better:

- You don’t have to use all letters.

- You do have to start the word all the way to the left.

- It has to be a valid scrabble word before you get any feedback at all.

I think you should try to give much more feedback when the player tries different things, so they have a chance to figure out the rules.

Re: Show HN: Can you beat my dad at Scrabble?

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Post by bla3 »

jstanley wrote: post #28
noduerme wrote: post #20

Like, this is neat. And fun. Small, simple and chill. So what I'm about to say is not specifically a knock against your game. What I've noticed lately on HN is this weird split where everything has to either be super basic - like, this game could have been literally written with BASIC in 1984 - or else it has to be an abstract conversation about the future of AI. With very little in the middle. What would be in the m…

I've noticed this as well, and not just on HN. If you do a bit of knitting that is obviously an amateur's attempt, people will say "wow, so cool that you can knit". When you work hard and get better at knitting and you produce stuff that is so good that it's commercial-product quality, people will say "what's the point in spending all that time and effort when you can just buy one?". Only when you become so good at k…

It's also true when learning languages. If you speak a language a tiny bit, locals act politely impressed. If you speak it kind of good but aren't a native speaker, at least in some countries that lands much worse than speaking the language badly.

Re: Show HN: Can you beat my dad at Scrabble?

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Post by danieltait »

amenghra wrote: post #38

Nice game! nit: I found the sentence "you found the nth highest scoring word" a little confusing since there can be >n words with a higher score (e.g. there could be 6 words scoring 12 and you found the 2nd highest scoring word with a score of 11).

Thanks!

Hmm yes what do you think could be a better way? Just the number of points?

Re: Show HN: Can you beat my dad at Scrabble?

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Post by Tade0 »

noduerme wrote: post #20

Like, this is neat. And fun. Small, simple and chill. So what I'm about to say is not specifically a knock against your game. What I've noticed lately on HN is this weird split where everything has to either be super basic - like, this game could have been literally written with BASIC in 1984 - or else it has to be an abstract conversation about the future of AI. With very little in the middle. What would be in the m…

After spending a year on-and-off making a game I realized that I don't really have a compelling story to tell and my artist friend is too busy to help me with the visual side.

Also, the real underlying reason why I started was the technical itch I wanted to scratch - it's been done so many times by so many people that I don't think it would be particularly interesting at this point.

I suppose there are more people like me.

Re: Show HN: Can you beat my dad at Scrabble?

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Post by skrebbel »

noduerme wrote: post #20

Like, this is neat. And fun. Small, simple and chill. So what I'm about to say is not specifically a knock against your game. What I've noticed lately on HN is this weird split where everything has to either be super basic - like, this game could have been literally written with BASIC in 1984 - or else it has to be an abstract conversation about the future of AI. With very little in the middle. What would be in the m…

I think the abstract conversations about the future of AI are in the same ballpark as this. Thing is, there's only two kinds of makers you see on HN:

- People who make small simple things and put them on HN

- People who make bigger nontrivial stuff

The latter stuff also shows up on HN but less often because the amount of time spent making is so much more, like if something takes 3 years it's a single Show HN and if it takes a day to make it's also a single Show HN. Also note that a decent blog post takes about as long to make as a basic game, ie "thought leadership" is in box 1.

The people working at OpenAI and related are empathically not spending all their time doing Show HNs, nor even blogging on the AI future. They're actually making stuff, just like indie gamedevs or the average Microsoft employee. They're all in box 2.

Lots of people are doing nontrivial stuff all the time, but most of it isn't big enough for other people to write blog posts and huge HN comment threads about, yet also not small enough to make a new HN submission every few days.

Re: Show HN: Can you beat my dad at Scrabble?

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Post by ahoya »

noduerme wrote: post #20

Like, this is neat. And fun. Small, simple and chill. So what I'm about to say is not specifically a knock against your game. What I've noticed lately on HN is this weird split where everything has to either be super basic - like, this game could have been literally written with BASIC in 1984 - or else it has to be an abstract conversation about the future of AI. With very little in the middle. What would be in the m…

In the middle is the vast majority of HN content: serious businesses.

Re: Show HN: Can you beat my dad at Scrabble?

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Post by robertlagrant »

danieltait wrote: post #5
anentropic wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's nice! My only gripe is: any time you click away from the tab, when you click back to it it resets the screen (shuffles the pile and clears any letters you had placed)

Hmm yes ok I just removed the refresh now. The reason it was there is some days I opened the tab on my iphone and for some reason it still showed the yesterdays result rather than the new day's letters. Will have a think of a better way to force the refresh of the letters on a new day.

setTimeout() with a timeout calculated to fire after midnight?
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