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

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Post by tobr »

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…

There’s something pleasant about software that feels light and simple and does one thing well. Most software tends to grow to become perhaps more useful, but also complex and inelegant.

Not sure if that explains your observation or not, but at least it’s what attracts me to engage with a submission like this.

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

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Post by ihappentobe »

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…

Mentioning “knitting” and etc. is interesting, and reminds me of a variation on this theme:

Browsing BoingBoing in the 2010s, the maker-themed posts that gained traction were projects that were essentially structured as: An over complicated _______ but it’s actually a simple ________. For example, ‘a 3d printed diy wrist mounted display that actually only shows yesterdays’ tweets”.

In some ways today’s pattern of projects being either very complicated or very simple is a distillation/separation of the earlier pattern.

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

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Post by PeterWhittaker »

PeterWhittaker wrote: post #52

Nit: it indicated I had chosen the 3rd highest scoring word, and listed a Latin word as first. Don’t normal scrabble words preclude foreign words?

In another case, one word it proposed as higher scoring was “vizy”, with the wiktionary page being their “this page doesn’t exist yet” 404…

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

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Post by reaperducer »

867-5309 wrote: post #39
TheHumanist wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If ya poop, ya have time for dadagrams!

exactly! two types of people on HN: those who have five or ten minutes to spare (on the bog) and those who comment "professionally" to bolster some sense of compulsion

those who comment "professionally" to bolster some sense of compulsion

I wonder what would happen to the quality of discourse on HN if there wasn't a scorecard at the top of each screen.

The "gamification" of everything is so 2010.

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

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Post by Karellen »

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!

The error message doesn't appear to show up on practice mode yet? I do see it on the regular mode though.

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

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Post by Symbiote »

danieltait wrote: post #18
anentropic wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A couple more ideas: - could be nice to have it calculate and show the score of the word you have currently placed - when you place a tile on the DL or TL you can't see where the DL and TL are any more (I think on Scrabble board they have little triangles that stick out past the edges?) - I found myself wanting to know the 'target' score, but I guess that would change the experience a bit

1. It shows the score just above the word if it is valid! 2. Yes agree thats a good idea. 3. I could add a new game mode where it shows you the target score, but I'm going to keep dad's score hidden for my own entertainment haha

It wasn't clear to me that I needed to start from the leftmost box.

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

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Post by KineticLensman »

Tade0 wrote: post #44
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 li…

FWIW: So I started some hobbyist game dev using Unity and realised that the full process of making a game has dependencies on a mass of lower-level skills including lighting virtual environments. As a hobbyist photographer I could see some useful analogies from lighting studios and other scenes

So I pivoted, and eventually made money, not from selling a game, but from developing tutorials about digital lighting. I was also able to contribute to a project at work that was making a product based on a commercial games engine, not by actually coding it, but by helping to better estimate the costs of the asset generation required.

Coding Unity object scripts in C# also got me back into programming, and I went on to successfully build a self-hosting lisp interpreter following the Make a Lisp guidelines [0].

[0] https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/process/guide.md

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

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Post by Symbiote »

komali2 wrote: post #45

Anybody got a better word than overt for 17 points for today's? Also I would love to play that IRL against my own dad immediately after him placing "over," he'd be furious lol

When you submit it tells you the "top words today".

ROT13: Pheeragyl gur irel orfg jbeq vf boireg sbe na nqqvgvbany cbvag.

Terccvat /hfe/funer/qvpg/jbeqf V qb abg frr nalguvat orggre.

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