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Re: Show HN: 18 Words

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Post by johndough »

volkk wrote: post #194
runjake wrote: post #178

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i've literally never heard of this, but great to pollute my brain with more of this bs. serious question: if the majority aren't "in the know" and some minority is, and the game has literally nothing to do with sending any sekrut messages, who cares? like, is a white nationalist sitting here on HN, playing this game over a coffee and thinks, "heh, sick this is 4 numbers away from the callsign"

If an uneducated acquaintance of yours was about to name their newborn child "Adolf", would you interject that this name might not be such a great idea?

Re: Show HN: 18 Words

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Post by qocialApp »

BUG:

I guessed "LATER", but it said - wrong and mentioned "ALERT". The only fix I would make is to ensure that all possible words with scrambled characters make sense.

LATER and ALERT are both correct, for text "A E R T L"

Re: Show HN: 18 Words

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Post by latexr »

unholiness wrote: post #172
kokanee wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just a vote since I'm seeing a lot of anti-timer sentiment: I like the timer because it creates a conclusive way for the game to end, and causes me to spend a lot less time on the game, I imagine. But I also think it makes sense to have a non-timer mode. It would also be cool to have like 3 shuffles that you are allowed to use. As an exit to the non-timer mode, I think it would be fine to have an "I give up " button.

I also love the countdown. Counterintuitively it makes the game less stressful — the counter goes back to 30 no matter what. If the timer counted up, you'd constantly need to care about getting each one as fast as possible, or fret about one that's taking you minutes, etc. With the countdown, you more want to care about the high level stuff: Keep your brain agile enough to get the next one, figure out more general pa…

> If the timer counted up, you'd constantly need to care about getting each one as fast as possible, or fret about one that's taking you minutes, etc.

The timer doesn’t have to be visible at all until the end.

> Everyone wants to fail less, sure.

It has nothing to do with not wanting to fail. Sometimes people just want to chill a bit or kill a few minutes with a simple word puzzle that engages your game without being stressful. This game doesn’t even let you repeat the challenges you took, so to play it you always have to be highly engaged. That’s fine for some games, but not every game needs to be like that, and this one doesn’t.

No one’s asking timer mode to go away, or even become the default, just to have the alternative option.

Re: Show HN: 18 Words

#204

Post by tikhonj »

shaftway wrote: post #192
pompomsheep wrote: post #15

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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

On today's puzzle, `WROGHT` was rejected, and I got `GROWTH` just in the nick of time.

Is that actually a word, or were you thinking of "wrought"?

Re: Show HN: 18 Words

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Post by quickthrowman »

shaftway wrote: post #192
pompomsheep wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

On today's puzzle, `WROGHT` was rejected, and I got `GROWTH` just in the nick of time.

The word is ‘wrought’, which is why it wasn’t accepted.

Re: Show HN: 18 Words

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Post by volkk »

johndough wrote: post #201
volkk wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i've literally never heard of this, but great to pollute my brain with more of this bs. serious question: if the majority aren't "in the know" and some minority is, and the game has literally nothing to do with sending any sekrut messages, who cares? like, is a white nationalist sitting here on HN, playing this game over a coffee and thinks, "heh, sick this is 4 numbers away from the callsign"

If an uneducated acquaintance of yours was about to name their newborn child "Adolf", would you interject that this name might not be such a great idea?

there's a big difference between Adolf and whatever esoteric garbage this is

Re: Show HN: 18 Words

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Post by pohl »

johndough wrote: post #201
volkk wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i've literally never heard of this, but great to pollute my brain with more of this bs. serious question: if the majority aren't "in the know" and some minority is, and the game has literally nothing to do with sending any sekrut messages, who cares? like, is a white nationalist sitting here on HN, playing this game over a coffee and thinks, "heh, sick this is 4 numbers away from the callsign"

If an uneducated acquaintance of yours was about to name their newborn child "Adolf", would you interject that this name might not be such a great idea?

Absolutely, it’s an act of kindness to loop them in. And if an eavesdropper complains about it I’d be super suspicious.
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