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Re: Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search

#31
The "up/down" arrows are a bit confusing, I don't think it's self-evident whether "later in the alphabet" would be considered "higher" or "lower".

"left" or "right" might be clearer, at least for English, and it would map directly to the range bar visualizations beneath each letter.

Re: Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search

#33

I 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.

Similar issue, my first guess was "plaudit" and it was not accepted

Re: Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search

#34
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I 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?

So far its been direct referrals, which was surprising. I did an initial post on Reddit, and its grown quite a lot since!!

Re: Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search

#35

Really cool. Everyone's given feedback about the length and such but mine is about the keyboard: it feels like the high/low/allowed colours should update as you go from slot to slot but they don't so it's pretty useless.

Yeah, I don't really understand what it's showing me. If they are based on letter possibilities over the entire word, that's not very useful.

Re: Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search

#36

I 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

Just played a round, the app claims my play was the 100,000th. I find that hard to believe :)

Re: Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search

#37

Very clever! My main issue with Wordle is that it feels like it's largely a question of chance, but this one feels like there's a lot more strategy involved.

There are strategies (especially if you know the word list). Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA, highly recommended.

Re: Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search

#40

Not to get a spoiler, but the post-game definition given for today's word (rot13: ybatrfg) uses an obscure secondary verb form instead of the much more common usage...

Noticed this as well. And the additional definitions under "explore this word" are all relating to the root word, not the actual form of the answer
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