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Re: Show HN: 18 Words

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Post by varun_ch » 

  function getPercentileText(survived) {
      if (survived === 18) return 'Top 1% of players today ';
      if (survived === 17) return 'Top 2% of players today ';
      if (survived === 16) return 'Top 3% of players today ';
      if (survived === 15) return 'Top 5% of players today ';
      if (survived >= 12 && survived = 10 && survived = 8 && survived
I feel like I've been lied to!

Re: Show HN: 18 Words

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Post by erickhill »

edanm wrote: post #245
edanm wrote: post #244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First, this is fantastic! Really fun. I really like everyone's idea of finding some way of letting the player play all 18 words. Either count up time, and use total time as the score (while allowing pausing). Or else just count the total score at the end, and if someone fails a word it's reduced from the score. So you got 16/18 word or something.

Also, Zanagrams is really fun too!

Is it not a clone of Puzzmo's 'Ribbit' game?

Re: Show HN: 18 Words

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Post by weedfroglozenge »

sensecall wrote: post #117
Yajirobe wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I just want to chill... I have plenty of stress in my life already.

If unscrambling 6 letters is causing you stress..... word games might not be for you.

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Post by fuzzythinker »

pompomsheep wrote: post #100

Thanks everyone for the feedback! Two questions 1. For a version without the timer what would you like to happen if you are just completely stuck on a word? Hints to reveal letters or skip the word? 2. For those who like the timed version would you prefer to continue when you miss a word and then get a final score out of 18?

Many option to have a set time (best if selectable, 30, 45, 60 - hard/med/easy) per word, and a set time per game - 6, 8, 10 (hard/med/easy) minutes

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Post by aaron695 »

pompomsheep wrote: post #100

Thanks everyone for the feedback! Two questions 1. For a version without the timer what would you like to happen if you are just completely stuck on a word? Hints to reveal letters or skip the word? 2. For those who like the timed version would you prefer to continue when you miss a word and then get a final score out of 18?

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Re: Show HN: 18 Words

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Post by rfool »

Nice! I think a big part of the success-to-fail-ratio is Subitizing.

Interestingly, whenever I failed, the correct answer felt totally obvious - and I wonder how this observation relates to frame semantics theory?

And not being native english speaker (as you, reading my comment, may have noticed) makes this harder, but still an exciting game.

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