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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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Post by linsomniac »

mildavw wrote: post #33
linsomniac wrote: post #11

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.

Final score: 4.0 :/ But pretty creative game. Thanks for sharing!

That is probably around where my first score was. :-) My wife and I had a 0 a couple weeks ago.

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

#102

Post by LtWorf »

Why is "loins" not a valid word? AFAIK it is.

I am the maintainer of parolottero, another word game (I made it to be used on plasma-mobile) and finding good word lists is not easy at all.

I have a decent one for italian but not for english. Which one are you using?

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

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Post by Retr0id »

LtWorf wrote: post #102

Why is "loins" not a valid word? AFAIK it is. I am the maintainer of parolottero, another word game (I made it to be used on plasma-mobile) and finding good word lists is not easy at all. I have a decent one for italian but not for english. Which one are you using?

It's not the name of an americentric sports team, though.

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

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Post by linsomniac »

kbrackbill wrote: post #46
linsomniac wrote: post #11

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.

Thanks for the suggestion, that was really fun. One I've been really enjoying in the same vein is https://raddle.quest

Thanks for that, I just played todays and it is pretty fun!

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

#105

Post by benrutter »

angry_moose wrote: post #64
enlyth wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish there was a more internationally friendly version of NYT Games, they're so fun and I play them daily but a lot US cultural knowledge is required at times

It cuts both ways. Cryptic Crosswords are almost impenetrable from the US as they're so deep in UK specific words, spellings, and trivia.

I love cryptic crossword, but there's so many "inside rules" that make them hard to approach for newcomers. It doesn't help that there really aren't a lot of good easy cryptics.

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

#106

Post by xyst »

Y444 wrote: 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…

This is 90% of my thoughts as well.

Another note I had is: keep the words to a specific category rather than a broad category.

For example: the today’s puzzle of “professional sports teams” had 4/5 of the teams from the NBA. The 5th answer was either the Detroit “Lions” (a professional _American football_ team) or more likely the London “Lions” (a _British_ professional basketball team).

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

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Post by [deleted] »

spicybright wrote: post #47

Just 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 e…

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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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Post by [deleted] »

linsomniac wrote: post #11

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.

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

#109

Post by wordglyph »

Y444 wrote: 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…

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

#110

Post by tartoran »

For anyone interested in word games there's a very fun and free wordle like game I ended up playing daily for the past year, check out https://www.threemagicwords.app/ I'm not the author so this is not a shameless plug, just a good game that is playable on your phone without installing any app.
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