The limiting time factor for me was the clicking around on the page. Allowing keyboard input somehow would be a plus.
Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
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#32I see - thank you uMatrix - that you use plausible.io I block all such tracking, so thanks for allowing me to play without that tracking. I do realise that such blocking affects your stats so if you could devise a way to track without using an external service that would be great.
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Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
#33A coworker and my wife and I have recently been really enjoying https://bracket.city which is a crossword-clue inspired word game with daily puzzles. It does take a little while to figure out, I'd recommend starting off asking for hints fairly often to decrease frustration, but after a couple weeks my wife and I are on a streak of 3 days of scoring 100.
Final score: 4.0 :/
But pretty creative game. Thanks for sharing!
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#34It seems not to accept a correct answer, "ladel" for Wednesday, March 26, 2025 (minor spoiler, apologies!)
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#35I like the calendar where you can go back to play other days. Enhancement request: would be nice for this to have an indicator of which days you have already played.
Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
#36A coworker and my wife and I have recently been really enjoying https://bracket.city which is a crossword-clue inspired word game with daily puzzles. It does take a little while to figure out, I'd recommend starting off asking for hints fairly often to decrease frustration, but after a couple weeks my wife and I are on a streak of 3 days of scoring 100.
Oh we absolutely love bracket city, +1
I’ve showed it to my friends, and it’s stuck. My brother shared it with all of his coworkers and they’re now playing too.
It’s fun watching it “spread” amongst my social group
Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
#37Sports teams? Who cares?
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#38I agree, today's challenge was really easy. But I did enjoy the other days, I played all of them!
What I'd like is an option to show the answers after failing (not by default, so you can still choose to replay if you want). For instance, I cannot for the life of me get the music act that's associated with "FALMO".
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#39Nice concept, but US-centric short/slang sports teams' names is a bit misjudged as the very first puzzle when introducing your new game to an international audience. I solved them because they're (mostly) words rather than them having meaning to me.
Same complaint. Also, not to poke fun at us too hard but there's probably less sports fans here than the average population :)
Really like the idea though.
Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
#40A coworker and my wife and I have recently been really enjoying https://bracket.city which is a crossword-clue inspired word game with daily puzzles. It does take a little while to figure out, I'd recommend starting off asking for hints fairly often to decrease frustration, but after a couple weeks my wife and I are on a streak of 3 days of scoring 100.
Neat puzzle.
My first wrong answer was an international spelling issue. It would be nice if it accepted then silently corrected based on equivalent international spellings, but I can also understand why it doesn't, sometimes it might be more crucial to the solution.