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Show HN: Kurdle – Wordle Meets Japanese Kanji
Hello HN!
I built Kurdle (https://japanesecomplete.com/kurdle.html https://japanesecomplete.com/kurdle.html), a Wordle variant that teaches Japanese kanji through English word patterns. Each day features a new kanji that replaces a vowel in a 5-letter English word.
For example, the kanji 人 (meaning "person") might replace the "U" in "HUMAN", showing as "H人MAN". Players learn kanji meanings while solving familiar word puzzles.
Features:
- Daily puzzles using common kanji from the essential 777 list
- Streak tracking to encourage regular practice
- "Hacker mode" UI theme (toggle in top right)
- Progressive learning - starts with basic kanji and builds up
Built with vanilla JS/HTML/CSS. No frameworks, no dependencies (except for victory confetti!).
This is part of my larger mission to make Japanese learning more approachable through gamification. Would love your feedback on the concept and execution!
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 2y agoI don't get it. Is the target word related to the kanji word? Or this is just normal Worldle but with 1 character replaced?
- porphyra 2y agoseems like there are lots of bugs: * Nothing prevents you from continuing to make guesses after filling all the rows. The confetti still plays even if you make an invisible guess. * Yellow tiles are incorrectly handled. For example if the word is 'pylon' and you guess 'puppy', the second 'p' and third 'p' would be yellow even though there's already a green 'p' in the guess. * It lets you guess invalid words.