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23words.com
- jefarmstrong 2y agoOk, I'll be shameless and throw my mine in: https://summit-puzzle.me https://summit-puzzle.me
- savanaly 2y agoI've got a math game to share too! https://www.tristanpendergrass.com/pretty-good-math/ https://www.tristanpendergrass.com/pretty-good-math/
- aukspot 2y agoFun! I think having a max-width for the main div would help the UI a bunch, the header stretches my entire screen and the "How to Play" modal is pretty wide. It would also be good to be able to close the modal with the Escape key or by clicking outside of it! Lastly, a "Give up" option might be nice. I love the concept and I think the directions are well-written with helpful images.
- jefarmstrong 2y agoThanks, I'll make those changes
- littlekey 2y agoFun! When you lose, I'd like to see the answer(s) for that letter combo.
- jbdistaken 2y ago@puzzledpenguin Thanks for the game. I played the other version before you migrated it here. Is it possible the dictionary is too small? I noticed a number of repeats across days/playing marathon mode that made it easier.
- layer8 2y ago– Different people (browsers) get different randomizations, which can make a difference in difficulty. It would be better for it to be deterministic (including the shuffles), with regard to "Challenge a friend". – Shuffling should cause a penalty, like reducing the remaining time by one second. – There is an easy way to cheat the timer by closing the tab and reopening it after finding the solution (on browsers that save the state of closed tabs). This could be avoided by basing the timer on absolute time. – The keyboard interface is great. – For some reason, I found today's words much less difficult than yesterday's. :)
- wlonkly 2y agoFor the first five or six words, I thought I had 30 seconds to get 23 words, which seemed kind of unnecessarily difficult.
- purple-leafy 2y agoFun but seems a bit too easy, but based on the percentage of people getting to 23 it seems okay? The last word was 7 letters I think? Would increase it to 8/9 letters to really make it hard
- lysosome 2y agoA little late to the party but another game! A music game for guessing where the mystery artist is from in the world based on a song snippet... I usually try to guess by language but it's a lot harder when they are singing :o https://pindrop.cc/daily https://pindrop.cc/daily
- cirwyz 2y agoThere seems to be a bug today, I typed "sunshine" at 21/23 and it said it was not in the word list. But the answer was supposedly also "sunshine". Could it be that the position of each S is somehow artificially significant?
- fransjorden 2y agoI had so much fun with this, but what's going on with the new domain? Also - the share link is broken, it states .com instead of .co Anyway, me and my friends greatly preferred the 23words.com branding
- HenryBemis 2y agoI survived all 23 words, "Top 1% of players today". Don't chase the letters with the mouse, you can type on your keyboard and hit backspace to shave off some seconds.
- catapart 2y agoFun! And fast! I didn't realize it reset for every word, so I was worried I was done on 8 words, but by getting that one at the wire, I was able to limp to 17. At least for today's words, it was a reasonable difficulty ramp, and a pretty easy experience! If I had one note it's that clicking the text of a letter doesn't remove that letter from the word (while clicking the background of a letter DOES remove it). Anyway, thanks for making/publishing this!
- sdwr 2y agoYeah the escalating difficulty is very well done, the tension ratcheted up bit by bit. Got to 21
- tatumj 2y agoThat was super fun, works great with keyboard. Fingers crossed for a seven-figure NYT acquisition :)
- eddd-ddde 2y agoIs that how it works? Can you really "own" IP of something as simple? I thought anyone could implement their own without having to pay the original.
- furyofantares 2y agoYou'd need to grow super super large so they'd want to acquire you for your audience.
- jimbobthrowawy 2y agoJosh Wardle really lucked out by both accidentally having the best name for that game, and it hitting a cultural firestorm quite quickly. IIRC, NYT are mostly going after other implementations if they have similar names.
- percivalPep 2y agoExcellent! Got stumped on 10 but brain wasn’t in gear. Tomorrow will be better!
- MisterBastahrd 2y agoIs there a key to clear a word automatically? Seems the space bar would work well.
- RheingoldRiver 2y agoThis makes me miss the original Text Twist, I would love if someone knows how I can play it still. In the original Text Twist, the shorter words were all in a specified order relative to the word order in the final word. For example, if the word was BIOPIC then TOP comes before TOPIC comes before TIC comes before OPT comes before POT. BIT would be the first word, and COT would be the last. (technically it was exactly opposite that, they were sorted in reverse of the order in which they appear in the final word, but that's harder to explain) With Text Twist 2 I guess they decided that was a bug not a feature (it was definitely a feature not a bug) and the order of the smaller words is now randomized. That one small change took the game from something I'd spend hours on to not even a little bit fun. Anyway to me this was pretty easy, I got all 23. I thought the letter order was very revealing on some of the later clues (like KINGDOM was almost entirely in order already) but maybe that was deliberate, anagramming a 7-letter word in 30s can be a bit hard One big piece of feedback, though: pressing enter should always clear your current letters (as in text twist)
- lenocinor 2y agoSuper late response, but I play Jumbline 2 these days which is the exact same thing. Only a phone app currently I think though.
- beardyw 2y agoApart from the domain name, is this the same as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40536488 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40536488
- dtjb 2y agoI like quick low-stakes browser games like this, something fun and fast to wake up your brain with morning coffee. If interested, here are some others I've come across - Linxicon - build bridges between two words (https://linxicon.com https://linxicon.com) WhenTaken - use clues to guess where and when a photo was taken (https://whentaken.com https://whentaken.com) Angle - guess the exact arc angle (https://angle.wtf https://angle.wtf) Metazooa - deduce the animal species (https://metazooa.com https://metazooa.com) Tradle - guess the country by its exports (https://games.oec.world/en/tradle https://games.oec.world/en/tradle) Globle - find the country by proximity (https://globle-game.com https://globle-game.com)
- cpeterso 2y ago> Angle - guess the exact arc angle (https://angle.wtf https://angle.wtf) I won't spoil today's Angle answer, but it seems like the game should only offer angles less than 180 degrees.
- michaelmior 2y agoLinxicon wasted way too much of my time after you posted this. Great game!
- obittner 2y agoBandle - guess songs by listening to one instrument at a time (https://bandle.app https://bandle.app)
- chedar 2y agoTwo logic games I've enjoyed lately: OneUpPuzzle - Sodoku like game where you need to complete a grid (https://www.oneuppuzzle.com https://www.oneuppuzzle.com) Queens - A fun thing to do at LinkedIn :) (https://www.linkedin.com/games/queens https://www.linkedin.com/games/queens)
- takinola 2y agoNeighborle - Identify border countries and states https://neighborle.com/ https://neighborle.com/
- askl 2y ago
- radlad 2y agoI got all the words. Fun game, but it felt kind of easy. Is there a keyboard shortcut to shuffle? I tried space to no avail.
- jimbobthrowawy 2y agoShift key. Disable stickykeys in advance.
- zomglings 2y agoFantastic game. Kudos.
- jmholla 2y agoThis needs to capture the backspace key so it doesn't send you back a page. Wordle used to have this problem. In the meantime, opening this in a fresh tab should help.
- spencerchubb 2y agoI like this concept. Wordle is very fun but I never liked how it was constrained to five letters. It felt like my brain was becoming very fluent in 5 letter words but not other words
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- sam1r 2y agoThe immediate key-bindings are super clutch + simple. So much fun on desktop. A nice faded history with strikethrough attempts (optional), would be neat on the UI front.
- nabakin 2y agoOnly thing I would change is the shuffling of characters is different for each user which can give a user an advantage over another depending on how they happen shuffle for them
- almara 2y agoLove it! I would like the possibility to keep trying when I fail.
- Z_Z 2y agoagreed, an endless mode would be nice. perhaps it's not implemented by-design to keep us coming back - it's certainly going to work on me. opening the game in a new private tab will let you make another attempt :)
- saaaaaam 2y agoGreat fun. Good work!
- zachmu 2y agoNice try but "basket" is obviously not a real word
- milliams 2y agoIt would be nice if when you fail, it tells you the answer rather than switching screens.
- aniviacat 2y agoIt does tell you the answer
- stevefolta 2y agoToo bad the keyboard doesn't work (Firefox with "Search for text when you start typing" on). They didn't do the "event.preventDefault(); event.stopPropagation();" dance.
- jagged-chisel 2y agoNaturally. You have enabled a setting for Firefox to intercept the keystrokes before the web page even gets a chance to see them. That means the JavaScript to prevent default action would never run.
- stevefolta 2y agoNot true, the JS _does_ get a chance to prevent the search behavior. It's not a problem with other games.
- xutopia 2y agoI have a feeling that this game on a touch device is way faster than having to move your mouse around and click!
- Braxton_Hicks 2y agoKeyboard is very fast for this.
- huvarda 2y agogot 21/23. Pretty fun!
- paxys 2y agoYet another fun game that will die because it tried to replicate the "one game a day" model for no reason. I like it, and want to play more. Why can't I? At the very least let me go back and retry the words that I missed? Not everything has to be Wordle.
- aukspot 2y agoI like the daily game format because it has everyone playing the same puzzle, but I agree with your other criticism. You should be able to try again or possibly disable the timer. I admit that having an archive would be nice, and some daily games do have that or an unlimited mode.
- allknowingfrog 2y agoI share your frustration, but not your confidence that it will impact the success of the game. The "daily challenge" format, though annoying, does seem to hook people.
- stack_framer 2y agoI found myself wanting to shuffle with the spacebar (so I wouldn't have to move my pinky fingers from A and L in order to shuffle with a shift key).
- iamtedd 2y agoThe countdown to the next puzzle is in the negative and is counting up. FYI, I'm not in North America.