any way I could send this TO my dad and see how he does?
Show HN: Can you beat my dad at Scrabble?
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#102Like, 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 too. It's mentioned in other comments below, but I definitely think it's easier to see the human behind something if it looks like a hobby project. I'm not sure what camp my games fall into, but I've had limited traction on HN, even though I'm just a lone human trying to hack it at full-time indie game dev.
Ironically I just launched a new word game today so we'll see if it makes the front page! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35184884
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#103I can't hope to beat an experienced native speaker at this game, but it might be useful for expanding my vocabulary. Case in point: my language doesn't really have a word for "almonry" - there's usually no dedicated space for collecting/dispensing alms. By far the best Scrabble player I ever encountered was a former corporate drone in his 50s, who hiked 40km+ daily in the Carpathians and was in charge of maintaining…
Be wary of the top answers it will give you. Quite a lot of the top answers will technically be words in English but are essentially completely unused and most people won't even know or understand them. For instance, today's top words: Obvert - I know this one but it isn't too common. Overt - This was my answer, it's not uncommon. Over - Common Evo - I've never seen this used as a word other than a name. Bevor - Appa…
I found obvert in the daily puzzles.. and tabanid in the practice puzzle. There's nothing wrong with learning "Scrabble" words.
Re: Show HN: Can you beat my dad at Scrabble?
#104Maybe add to the “how to play” that you don’t have to use all letters. I thought you have to use all and gave up after a while, before reading comments here discussing actual solution words.
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#105Maybe add to the “how to play” that you don’t have to use all letters. I thought you have to use all and gave up after a while, before reading comments here discussing actual solution words.
For me it was pretty obvious.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
same here :)
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#108I absolutely love it! Thanks for making it so simple and clean.
Re: Show HN: Can you beat my dad at Scrabble?
#109Like, 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…
I think we also enjoy playing with other peoples fun passion projects.
It’s different playing with something that someone built because they wanted to build it and it was fun, rather than them having some sense of commercial gain. See: indie games.
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#110This is great, good luck with the inevitable NYT buyout :) One nit, the letters could snap the grid a bit more aggressive, I found I frequently had letter “miss” the grid and have to drag them again (on an iPad).
> This is great, good luck with the inevitable NYT buyout :)
How much do you think will his dad make at NYT?