Done in 50 - though I’m not sure all of my words were really words hah - very fun game
Show HN: Spindle, a cross between Wordle and a Rubik's Cube made in PHP
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Re: Show HN: Spindle, a cross between Wordle and a Rubik's Cube made in PHP
#42Really neatly done. It felt difficult but maybe it's a skill that can be learned. Spoiler: At the end, it shows you a graph of how many turns people took to solve it, and if I'm reading it correctly, only 30-ish people solved it at all, despite being on the front page of HN for 2-3 hours? Definitely on the harder end of wordle derivatives! And I bow down to whoever solved it in 9 turns.
It definitely gets easier with a bit of practice. PS: I solved it in 8 today, and my friend - who seems unnaturally good at this - solved it in 7. He always seems to beat me by 1; it’s like if the person who invented golf was best mates with Tiger Woods!
Definitely gets easier! The first puzzle after the HN post took me 181 ( including figuring out how it works), which I think is the most anyone has taken on one puzzle lol. However today it only took me 22 moves! It's a very fun puzzle and it really just needs a bit of practice.
Re: Show HN: Spindle, a cross between Wordle and a Rubik's Cube made in PHP
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for trying it! Do you think undo would be okay if it “cost” you a turn? Part of the fun (for me at least) has been the competitive nature of it (ie, competing on getting the lowest turn count)
No, imo that won't be okay. Competition is not in a picture if one can't even finish a round :) Perhaps you can have competitive and casual modes? One with the score and no undo, another without and with respectively.
I think this is a good idea. I personally enjoy seeing where I place and trying to use the least possible number of moves. However, I also thought it would be good to be able to play as many puzzles as you want in a day, and a casual mode may be a way to do this.
There could be an official word each day that is ranked, but also randomly generated puzzles that you could play limitlessly. Only issue there is when you have words appearing in the casual mode and ranked mode, which I'm not entirely sure how to fix.
Re: Show HN: Spindle, a cross between Wordle and a Rubik's Cube made in PHP
#44Looks nice, but the instructions are confusing me. I've read the 'How to Play' and still don't know how to play. First of all, I need to 'spin', but how do I do that? By clicking, dragging, typing...? Any or all of these? And if so, clicking/dragging what? And what is it that is being spun? Rows, columns? Apparently it's words, but that is mentioned nowhere. Second, in the 'How to Play' there are these two examples:…
Agreed. It's not clear to me when I can and can't spin something.