I don't get it. I type a word and nothing happens?
There's "Go" button in lower left corner
Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search
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#12I loaded the puzzle and was presented with an empty 7 character prompt. I tried typing in three different seven-letter words, and each time I hit "GO", I was told the word was "Not in the word list". With no further guidance given, I closed the tab.
Had a similar issue, several of my words weren't accepted.
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#13Looks good. What's with the submit buttons being put on the left on virtual game keyboards, even though Return/Enter usually on the right on typical keyboards. Wordle also does this.
Having the backspace on the left would probably mess up most mobile typers' muscle memory, and since that key is pressed once vs backspace which might be pressed multiple times, it would be a sensible tradeoff to keep submit on the left side
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#14I agree with everyone else who’s commented up to this point. But I’ll say what they’re saying more clearly: it’s a bit too difficult. I love the idea though.
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#15No archive of previous games?
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#16Cool in principle, but I had an awful lot of trouble finding 7 letter words on the wordlist.
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#17Wow this is pretty hard. I usually do well with word games, this one not so much. I may have just dodged being nerdsniped if I can just let it go.
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#18I recently did the same (made a daily game) and I am approaching 100k plays since March. https://plot-hole.com - the best thing so far about this app has been the analytics which you can check out here: https://plot-hole.com/daily-analytics-82u4fhrvw
That's impressive! How have you been attracting players?
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#19Think this needs calibration, it's way too hard!
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#20The high/lo feels unintuitive to me .. Down on a P makes me thing R-Z not A-O.
I actually think left/right is a more clear visual and mental model.
I like the game and it is quite difficult sometimes to come up with a legal word that gives you an improved anchor point for the binary search.