Show HN: A little word puzzle game I made

#1

Post by max0563 » Tue, Jul 01, 2025, 11:31 PM UTC

Show HN: A little word puzzle game I made
wordpivot.com

Re: Show HN: A little word puzzle game I made

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Post by stevage » Tue, Jul 01, 2025, 11:49 PM UTC

Nice!

A few issues on Firefox android:

- keyboard closes after adding each letter so it's a clunky experience

- couldn't delete a letter

- it let me add two letters into the last box of one word

The rules are a bit unintuitive. Definitely surprising that horizontal words don't have to be words.

Also for me a timer is a turn off. Feels unnecessary.

Re: Show HN: A little word puzzle game I made

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Post by max0563 » Wed, Jul 02, 2025, 1:41 AM UTC

stevage wrote: post #2

Nice! A few issues on Firefox android: - keyboard closes after adding each letter so it's a clunky experience - couldn't delete a letter - it let me add two letters into the last box of one word The rules are a bit unintuitive. Definitely surprising that horizontal words don't have to be words. Also for me a timer is a turn off. Feels unnecessary.

Thanks for the feedback.

> The rules are a bit unintuitive. Definitely surprising that horizontal words don't have to be words.

You are not the first person to say this, and I am starting to agree. I think that more basic ruleset is more fun and far more intuitive. Especially given the current UI layout. I am going to spin up a new version with that ruleset I think.

Thanks!

Re: Show HN: A little word puzzle game I made

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Post by wordglyph » Wed, Jul 02, 2025, 2:58 AM UTC

Fun! Fyi, I had an issue backspacing on Pixel 7 backspacing overwriting a letter.

Re: Show HN: A little word puzzle game I made

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Post by max0563 » Wed, Jul 02, 2025, 3:05 AM UTC

wordglyph wrote: post #4

Fun! Fyi, I had an issue backspacing on Pixel 7 backspacing overwriting a letter.

Thanks for letting me know, I will check on it!

Re: Show HN: A little word puzzle game I made

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Post by stevage » Wed, Jul 02, 2025, 6:17 AM UTC

max0563 wrote: post #3

stevage wrote: post #2

Nice! A few issues on Firefox android: - keyboard closes after adding each letter so it's a clunky experience - couldn't delete a letter - it let me add two letters into the last box of one word The rules are a bit unintuitive. Definitely surprising that horizontal words don't have to be words. Also for me a timer is a turn off. Feels unnecessary.

Thanks for the feedback. > The rules are a bit unintuitive. Definitely surprising that horizontal words don't have to be words. You are not the first person to say this, and I am starting to agree. I think that more basic ruleset is more fun and far more intuitive. Especially given the current UI layout. I am going to spin up a new version with that ruleset I think. Thanks!

Also, the rule that you can't repeat a letter for a position with the horizontal word, or two immediate neighbours is just too...finnicky and arbitrary.

Re: Show HN: A little word puzzle game I made

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Post by wordglyph » Wed, Jul 02, 2025, 12:54 PM UTC

max0563 wrote: post #5

wordglyph wrote: post #4

Fun! Fyi, I had an issue backspacing on Pixel 7 backspacing overwriting a letter.

Thanks for letting me know, I will check on it!

I ended up making my own keyboard for consistency across devices for https://wordglyph.xyz Another nice thing about custom keyboard is it doesn't give you word predictions like a lot of built in keyboards do.

Re: Show HN: A little word puzzle game I made

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Post by max0563 » Wed, Jul 02, 2025, 4:57 PM UTC

wordglyph wrote: post #7

max0563 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for letting me know, I will check on it!

I ended up making my own keyboard for consistency across devices for https://wordglyph.xyz Another nice thing about custom keyboard is it doesn't give you word predictions like a lot of built in keyboards do.

Yeah, I am starting to appreciate that view a bit more now after also struggling with the native keyboard. I already started working on adding that to Word Pivot.

Re: Show HN: A little word puzzle game I made

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Post by max0563 » Wed, Jul 02, 2025, 4:59 PM UTC

stevage wrote: post #6

max0563 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback. > The rules are a bit unintuitive. Definitely surprising that horizontal words don't have to be words. You are not the first person to say this, and I am starting to agree. I think that more basic ruleset is more fun and far more intuitive. Especially given the current UI layout. I am going to spin up a new version with that ruleset I think. Thanks!

Also, the rule that you can't repeat a letter for a position with the horizontal word, or two immediate neighbours is just too...finnicky and arbitrary.

Agreed. I actually added the crossword version here https://wordpivot.com/crossword/ but it is FAR harder than I thought. I'm still play testing it.

Also, writing a solver for these things is also surprisingly difficult, but fun!