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A coworker and my wife and I have recently been really enjoying https://bracket.city https://bracket.city which is a crossword-clue inspired word game with dail

A coworker and my wife and I have recently been really enjoying https://bracket.city https://bracket.city which is a crossword-clue inspired word game with daily puzzles. It does take a little while to figure out, I'd recommend starting off asking for hints fairly often to decrease frustration, but after a couple weeks my wife and I are on a streak of 3 days of scoring 100.

mildavw 2y ago
Final score: 4.0 :/ But pretty creative game. Thanks for sharing!
- linsomniac 2y ago
  That is probably around where my first score was. :-) My wife and I had a 0 a couple weeks ago.
j_bum 2y ago
Oh we absolutely love bracket city, +1 I’ve showed it to my friends, and it’s stuck. My brother shared it with all of his coworkers and they’re now playing too. It’s fun watching it “spread” amongst my social group
- linsomniac 2y ago
  You've had better luck spreading it than I have it sounds like. Everyone I've mentioned it to has said "It's too hard" and I don't think has really even given it a shot.
xnorswap 2y ago
Neat puzzle. My first wrong answer was an international spelling issue. It would be nice if it accepted then silently corrected based on equivalent international spellings, but I can also understand why it doesn't, sometimes it might be more crucial to the solution.
- linsomniac 2y ago
  There is a "mayor@" e-mail you can use to submit requests like this and the developer has been pretty responsive.
kbrackbill 2y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, that was really fun. One I've been really enjoying in the same vein is https://raddle.quest https://raddle.quest
- linsomniac 2y ago
  Thanks for that, I just played todays and it is pretty fun!
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tolien 2y ago
I'll quite often wind up solving this by a sort of parallel construction, as in rather than getting the hint I can work out what word is supposed to be there based on what's around it. Some of the clues can be really cryptic.
- linsomniac 2y ago
  Yes, that is the real trick when you get stuck is to start constructing the clues that it will eventually become.
silisili 2y ago
Same. I saw a show HN on this a couple weeks ago and have been borderline addicted since.
Kiro 2y ago
I thought this was way too hard. I didn't figure out a single word and even failed the tutorial. Seeing everyone loving it makes me feel really stupid.
- linsomniac 2y ago
  I do think it is something that is a bit of a learned skill. I've done around 30 of them and the earlier ones I did rather poorly on, and even within the last 15 puzzles I had one where I scored 0. But the last 3 puzzles I've scored 100 on. It's not for everyone I'm sure, especially if you are unfamiliar with common English phrases (like "bang for the buck").
jimnotgym 2y ago
I find it a bit US centric, like many of these games
- linsomniac 2y ago
  Yes, that is definitely true.

mildavw 2y ago

Final score: 4.0 :/ But pretty creative game. Thanks for sharing!

linsomniac 2y ago
That is probably around where my first score was. :-) My wife and I had a 0 a couple weeks ago.

j_bum 2y ago

Oh we absolutely love bracket city, +1 I’ve showed it to my friends, and it’s stuck. My brother shared it with all of his coworkers and they’re now playing too. It’s fun watching it “spread” amongst my social group

linsomniac 2y ago
You've had better luck spreading it than I have it sounds like. Everyone I've mentioned it to has said "It's too hard" and I don't think has really even given it a shot.

xnorswap 2y ago

Neat puzzle. My first wrong answer was an international spelling issue. It would be nice if it accepted then silently corrected based on equivalent international spellings, but I can also understand why it doesn't, sometimes it might be more crucial to the solution.

linsomniac 2y ago
There is a "mayor@" e-mail you can use to submit requests like this and the developer has been pretty responsive.

kbrackbill 2y ago

Thanks for the suggestion, that was really fun. One I've been really enjoying in the same vein is https://raddle.quest https://raddle.quest

linsomniac 2y ago
Thanks for that, I just played todays and it is pretty fun!

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tolien 2y ago

I'll quite often wind up solving this by a sort of parallel construction, as in rather than getting the hint I can work out what word is supposed to be there based on what's around it. Some of the clues can be really cryptic.

linsomniac 2y ago
Yes, that is the real trick when you get stuck is to start constructing the clues that it will eventually become.

silisili 2y ago

Same. I saw a show HN on this a couple weeks ago and have been borderline addicted since.

Kiro 2y ago

I thought this was way too hard. I didn't figure out a single word and even failed the tutorial. Seeing everyone loving it makes me feel really stupid.

linsomniac 2y ago
I do think it is something that is a bit of a learned skill. I've done around 30 of them and the earlier ones I did rather poorly on, and even within the last 15 puzzles I had one where I scored 0. But the last 3 puzzles I've scored 100 on. It's not for everyone I'm sure, especially if you are unfamiliar with common English phrases (like "bang for the buck").

jimnotgym 2y ago

I find it a bit US centric, like many of these games

linsomniac 2y ago
Yes, that is definitely true.