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

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Post by nyerp »

Love it!! But you've GOT to improve the sharing feature. This is a great, accessible daily game. Connect it with Facebook, or at least give people something they can cut-and-paste without having to open an email client!

And the information you provide below is good (it provides a bit of "braggy" info without giving the answer away) but I would make it more conversational, e.g., "I beat Dad!" and then "I beat Dad again!" and then "I'm on a roll... I beat Dad 3 times in a row!" and add a call to action like "Can you beat Dad too? Try here: https://dadagrams.com".

The "Dad" emoji is chef's kiss. Definitely keep that in the share message.

For reference, here's the current share message (minus the great emoji, which apparently HN does not support):

#dadagrams14

Today: Won by 2 points

All time: Winning by 2 points

Daily streak: 1

https://dadagrams.com

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

#72

Post by candleknight »

cosmojg wrote: post #66
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…

You should check out https://lobster.rs ! It's like HN if it were dedicated to the middle of that content distribution you describe. Nothing too simple, but nothing too abstract either.

that link's broken, I think you meant https://lobste.rs/

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

#73

Post by taejo »

danieltait wrote: post #43
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?

The usual thing in this case is to call it the 7th highest-scoring word (but call all of those above it the highest-scoring)

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

#74

Post by GNOMES »

Really fun! I beat your dad by 2 points lol.

Feature that is missing vs actually playing Scrabble is the ability to play a fake word if other players do not call you out on it.

I wonder if you could find a list of common misspelled words or fake words to allow, or could have some logic that compares the percentage word is misspelled by, and have the computer call it out as fake if it is over say 25% misspelled or something.

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

#75

Post by kevviiinn »

blowski wrote: post #64
reaperducer wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

True, I wonder how much internet points improve quality of conversation. Given some people keep arguing even when they're being downvoted into oblivion, there must be something deeper, like a need for engagement.

It is a well known fact that everyone who gets down voted is always wrong

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

#76

Post by shawabawa3 »

nyerp wrote: post #71

Love it!! But you've GOT to improve the sharing feature. This is a great, accessible daily game. Connect it with Facebook, or at least give people something they can cut-and-paste without having to open an email client! And the information you provide below is good (it provides a bit of "braggy" info without giving the answer away) but I would make it more conversational, e.g., "I beat Dad!" and then "I beat Dad agai…

> But you've GOT to improve the sharing feature. This is a great, accessible daily game. Connect it with Facebook, or at least give people something they can cut-and-paste without having to open an email client!

They're using the "Wordle" share method which worked insanely well, precisely due to the fact it didn't try to share with facebook or anything annoying, you just copy paste into an IM client

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

#77

Post by shawabawa3 »

taejo wrote: post #73
danieltait wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The usual thing in this case is to call it the 7th highest-scoring word (but call all of those above it the highest-scoring)

I much prefer how it is currently

The important thing is not that there are 6 better words, but there is 1 better score (i.e. you got the second best score possible)

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

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Post by the_imp »

danieltait wrote: post #43
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?

"You found the Nth highest word score"
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