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tbh this should accept all dictionary matches

Did you find a word that wasn't accepted you thought should be? I do have another version where it accepts ANY word but I found it quite unsatisfying when I survived by randomly spamming combinations and finding a really obscure word. So am currently running it against a 20,000 word wordlist instead of my larger 300,000 wordlist

Going two days back in the archive, "egret" not allowed

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The timer makes it not enjoyable for me. It seems necessary to the game design and I’m not being negatively critical. Just sharing an additional perspective. I’ve been playing Zanagrams and the ability to hide the clock really improved my enjoyment of that game. If I could magically get a feature by request, it would be to give me infinite time even if that meant my score came with an asterisk. Maybe just call it Rel…

Yep, instead of feeling like a fun puzzle the timer just adds unnecessary pressure and gets me really annoyed.

My guy that’s the whole point of the game. Otherwise it’s too easy

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#46
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Could I have the source code so I can plug in the Polish word list? It would make a great training app for Scrabble.

You could also probably one-shot your own version of this using any SOTA LLM, it's not terribly complicated (but a nice game idea!).

Re: Show HN: 18 Words

#47

The timer makes it not enjoyable for me. It seems necessary to the game design and I’m not being negatively critical. Just sharing an additional perspective. I’ve been playing Zanagrams and the ability to hide the clock really improved my enjoyment of that game. If I could magically get a feature by request, it would be to give me infinite time even if that meant my score came with an asterisk. Maybe just call it Rel…

Same. Stopped after two words. Gave me the same feeling as taking a timed software developer screening.

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Yep, instead of feeling like a fun puzzle the timer just adds unnecessary pressure and gets me really annoyed.

My guy that’s the whole point of the game. Otherwise it’s too easy

You can still be competitive in "casual mode" using total time used to solve all the words.

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#49

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Did you find a word that wasn't accepted you thought should be? I do have another version where it accepts ANY word but I found it quite unsatisfying when I survived by randomly spamming combinations and finding a really obscure word. So am currently running it against a 20,000 word wordlist instead of my larger 300,000 wordlist

300,000? The Oxford dictionary only contains 171,000!

I guess the wordlist with 300k contains all the different forms a word can have while the 171k count is only the base words.

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#50

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Did you find a word that wasn't accepted you thought should be? I do have another version where it accepts ANY word but I found it quite unsatisfying when I survived by randomly spamming combinations and finding a really obscure word. So am currently running it against a 20,000 word wordlist instead of my larger 300,000 wordlist

300,000? The Oxford dictionary only contains 171,000!

Haha yeah the 300k list contains so really obscure stuff
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