I love this! Great work, took me 13 mins to solve my first just now with no hints, that’s perfectly aligned with the time it takes to drink a coffee in bed ;)
Nice, I'm so glad you liked it!
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#12its difficult initially but fun, will continue playing it. congrats!
Thank you for giving it a go!
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#13Nice idea, I enjoyed this and shared it with a few friends.
Ah amazing, thank you.
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#14This is a pretty awesome little game, seems more rewarding than most something-le games I've seen. Will share with friends. Will you / could you add access to past puzzles? That's the first thing I looked for but couldn't find.
That's great to hear!
>Will you / could you add access to past puzzles? That's the first thing I looked for but couldn't find.
Yeah I'm still torn about this. On the one hand, it's obviously a really easy feature to add and allows users who want to play more to do so. And I'm aware that a lot of people really don't like it when daily puzzle games don't let you play through the archive. On the other hand, I am quite romantic about the daily thing. I really loved the fact you could only play Wordle once a day, there was something special about it in an era of unlimited, endless content. I know it's no longer novel to limit players to just one puzzle a day, but something is compelling me to keep it that way.
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#15I'm not sure about the homophones.
A spoiler for the some-owner puzzle: "one" is a homophone of "won", apparently, but I can't see how they're pronounced the same. In the examples we have "thyme → time", but doesn't "thyme" have the "th" sound while "time" has the "t" sound?
Finally, "One new puzzle each day" - why do people do this? There's no way to play more than 1 puzzle, but by tomorrow I will have probably lost interest.
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#16I actually just created a VERY similar game, but called it https://ladderfy.com
Your version is nice too!
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#17I'm not sure about the homophones. A spoiler for the some-owner puzzle: "one" is a homophone of "won", apparently, but I can't see how they're pronounced the same. In the examples we have "thyme → time", but doesn't "thyme" have the "th" sound while "time" has the "t" sound? Finally, "One new puzzle each day" - why do people do this? There's no way to play more than 1 puzzle, but by tomorrow I will have probably lost…
>A spoiler for the some-owner puzzle: "one" is a homophone of "won", apparently, but I can't see how they're pronounced the same.
Yeah it's unfortunate because I'm British, "one" and "won" are said the same for us but I didn't notice that they would be different for Americans. I should exclude puzzles where these differences happen, I just didn't spot this one. I'll have to test each puzzle with my best american accent on going forward.
>In the examples we have "thyme → time", but doesn't "thyme" have the "th" sound while "time" has the "t" sound?
In the UK we pronounce this like "time". Is that not the case in the US?
>Finally, "One new puzzle each day" - why do people do this? There's no way to play more than 1 puzzle, but by tomorrow I will have probably lost interest.
I need time to find the right puzzles and as you can see it can be pretty tricky to find ones that don't have regional pronunciation deviations, are fun to solve and are easy enough for a broad majority. I could add archive playing but frankly I do like the idea of a daily puzzle, even if some others don't like that. I think for as many people who don't like it there are people who do.
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#18I actually just created a VERY similar game, but called it https://ladderfy.com Your version is nice too!
Ah cool, I'll give it a go.
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#19This is a pretty awesome little game, seems more rewarding than most something-le games I've seen. Will share with friends. Will you / could you add access to past puzzles? That's the first thing I looked for but couldn't find.
That's great to hear! >Will you / could you add access to past puzzles? That's the first thing I looked for but couldn't find. Yeah I'm still torn about this. On the one hand, it's obviously a really easy feature to add and allows users who want to play more to do so. And I'm aware that a lot of people really don't like it when daily puzzle games don't let you play through the archive. On the other hand, I am quite r…
The game’s difficult to understand so it’s too punitive to not offer even a single practice/example puzzle to use for learning. One puzzle a day is nice once you’ve got the hang of it, but it’s discouraging to “waste” today’s puzzle on learning the rules and not be able to try for real until tomorrow.
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#20I'm not sure about the homophones. A spoiler for the some-owner puzzle: "one" is a homophone of "won", apparently, but I can't see how they're pronounced the same. In the examples we have "thyme → time", but doesn't "thyme" have the "th" sound while "time" has the "t" sound? Finally, "One new puzzle each day" - why do people do this? There's no way to play more than 1 puzzle, but by tomorrow I will have probably lost…
>A spoiler for the some-owner puzzle: "one" is a homophone of "won", apparently, but I can't see how they're pronounced the same. Yeah it's unfortunate because I'm British, "one" and "won" are said the same for us but I didn't notice that they would be different for Americans. I should exclude puzzles where these differences happen, I just didn't spot this one. I'll have to test each puzzle with my best american acce…
> because I'm British, "one" and "won" are said the same for us
Are they pronounced like wan or like won?
> >In the examples we have "thyme → time", but doesn't "thyme" have the "th" sound while "time" has the "t" sound?
I've heard it pronounced with a "th" once or twice. Now I read that "time" with a "t" is more frequent but both are acceptable.
> I could add archive playing but frankly I do like the idea of a daily puzzle, even if some others don't like that. I think for as many people who don't like it there are people who do.
To me it's an unnatural limit. Imagine if we couldn't see past HN threads or something like that.