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Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?

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Product manager ex. game designer with a number of puzzle/word game in operation here. - Having a timer (urgency) is usually not a very good idea for thinky games. If you insist on having a timer consider making it count upwards. - Additionally as other commenters mentioned is the game is a time trial it needs an explicit “Start” button. Also stop the timer when user is not playing e.g. reading the rules. - There’s n…

The timer doesn’t matter.

Nobody needs rules for this game.

Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?

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post #71

Product manager ex. game designer with a number of puzzle/word game in operation here. - Having a timer (urgency) is usually not a very good idea for thinky games. If you insist on having a timer consider making it count upwards. - Additionally as other commenters mentioned is the game is a time trial it needs an explicit “Start” button. Also stop the timer when user is not playing e.g. reading the rules. - There’s n…

> and even then being US-centric will work. The world has sadly changed a lot in recent months.

What did I miss, did Trump replace the english language now?

Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?

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post #71

Product manager ex. game designer with a number of puzzle/word game in operation here. - Having a timer (urgency) is usually not a very good idea for thinky games. If you insist on having a timer consider making it count upwards. - Additionally as other commenters mentioned is the game is a time trial it needs an explicit “Start” button. Also stop the timer when user is not playing e.g. reading the rules. - There’s n…

Agree that timers suck the fun out of a game like this. I avoid any solitaire game with a timer for example.

The OG Windows 3 solitaire has an option to disable the timer, it's one of the first things I uncheck. I did "speedrun" solitaire in my computer classes for fun, though. :)

Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and even then being US-centric will work. The world has sadly changed a lot in recent months.

What did I miss, did Trump replace the english language now?

There’s a 40% tariff on the letter ‘u’.

Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?

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A 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.

There is a "mayor@" e-mail you can use to submit requests like this and the developer has been pretty responsive.

Re: Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?

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A 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

You've had better luck spreading it than I have it sounds like. Everyone I've mentioned it to has said "It's too hard" and I don't think has really even given it a shot.
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