This reminds me a lot of NYT strands, in the sense that it’s “multiple themed rounds of classic word game format X” In the strands example, the base word game is a word search in which they break the rules a bit to make it harder. Here it’s a simple word unscrambling. Makes me wonder what other games you could make by following this “themed rounds of X” format.
Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
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Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
#42I 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".
LMFAO?
Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
#43Couple of minor bugs, one of which is arguably not a bug:
1. When you play a game for the first time it invites you to make an account. When you make an account, it seems to forget that you played that particular game already.
2. By manipulating the URL you can play games from the future.
Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
#44I 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".
LMFAO?
That was it! I was busy looking for a word rather than an acronym
Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
#45Quick UI suggestion: Let users playing on desktop type the letters.
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#46A 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.
Thanks for the suggestion, that was really fun. One I've been really enjoying in the same vein is https://raddle.quest
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#47Just worked through a lot of the puzzles. I love the concept, and I also like how the timer doesn't reset when you switch between them.
3 pieces of feedback:
1. Since your time matters, a start button before a new puzzle is presented would be nice.
2. I wanted to play more puzzles but didn't realize the calendar button up top switched puzzles till reading comments. I think fading the screen with an overlay with the existing buttons and adding a "Play Another?" button would hook people in more.
3. Some of the scrambles are too easy. Maybe that's by design, but an example is "PAWSN" in the apr 4th chess puzzle, it's stupidly obvious compared to the other words.
But again really awesome content and would make an amazing mobile website or app.
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#48Could you share how you pick each day's words?
Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
#49"Build your word here" really confused me. I thought that was a text box that I was supposed to activate.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's no professional sports team (the category for the day) called the 'LOINS'
Oh. Well, I don't like sports of any kind. Except ones with robots. And stone skipping. And maybe indoor bowls if it doesn't get too intense.
You thought there might be a sports team called the Loins?