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Submitted quite a while ago, if you wanted to resubmit it for its own discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24789018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item

Submitted quite a while ago, if you wanted to resubmit it for its own discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24789018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24789018 Also, for convenience: https://woogles.io https://woogles.io

rahimnathwani 1y ago
Woogles is nice. The board looks like a regular scrabble board, but the special squares are indicated only with colours, and don't say 'Triple Word Score' etc. like on the real Scrabble board. When you hover over a square, you see the bonus as '2x letter' etc. This behaviour is fine for experienced players, but not for children or beginners, especially those playing on iPads, which don't have 'hover'. I made a userscript to fix this: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/508773-woogles-bonus-label-fixer https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/508773-woogles-bonus-label...
thomasfromcdnjs 1y ago
I love scrabble, it may be going through a growth spurt at the moment, kind of like chess after all the netflix movies. Everyone should follow Will Anderson, he runs an extremely high quality Youtube channel -> https://www.youtube.com/@wanderer15 https://www.youtube.com/@wanderer15 Even if you don't play often, his scrabble videos are fantastic to watch on a lunch break. --- My friends and I are playing around with vibe coding a 4+ multi player scrabble, surprisingly it doesn't really exist. (hasbro is extremely tight on their copyright)
- wdumaresq 1y ago
  I made a multi-player (up to 12 players) Scrabble-like game. Everyone submits their turn at the same time so there are no long waits between turns. It's a "capture territory with words" game. http://crosswordislandhopper.com/cih http://crosswordislandhopper.com/cih
  - mdaniel 1y ago
    The capturing territory part reminds me of Truncate which I absolutely love (and absolutely hate the UI): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39882873 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39882873 -> https://github.com/TruncateGame/Truncate https://github.com/TruncateGame/Truncate (MIT)
- porphyra 1y ago
  Even if it does exist, it may not use the "Scrabble" trademark, making it difficult to search for. For example, one time I forgot what Woogles was called and had trouble finding it again since it doesn't mention Scrabble at any point. I had to use an LLM to remind myself what it was called.
CamperBob2 1y ago
Don't do what I just did, and waste several minutes on a puzzle. As soon as you hit "Give up," or presumably submit the valid answer, all it does is say "auth-methods-failed."

rahimnathwani 1y ago

Woogles is nice. The board looks like a regular scrabble board, but the special squares are indicated only with colours, and don't say 'Triple Word Score' etc. like on the real Scrabble board. When you hover over a square, you see the bonus as '2x letter' etc. This behaviour is fine for experienced players, but not for children or beginners, especially those playing on iPads, which don't have 'hover'. I made a userscript to fix this: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/508773-woogles-bonus-label-fixer https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/508773-woogles-bonus-label...

thomasfromcdnjs 1y ago

I love scrabble, it may be going through a growth spurt at the moment, kind of like chess after all the netflix movies. Everyone should follow Will Anderson, he runs an extremely high quality Youtube channel -> https://www.youtube.com/@wanderer15 https://www.youtube.com/@wanderer15 Even if you don't play often, his scrabble videos are fantastic to watch on a lunch break. --- My friends and I are playing around with vibe coding a 4+ multi player scrabble, surprisingly it doesn't really exist. (hasbro is extremely tight on their copyright)

wdumaresq 1y ago
I made a multi-player (up to 12 players) Scrabble-like game. Everyone submits their turn at the same time so there are no long waits between turns. It's a "capture territory with words" game. http://crosswordislandhopper.com/cih http://crosswordislandhopper.com/cih
- mdaniel 1y ago
  The capturing territory part reminds me of Truncate which I absolutely love (and absolutely hate the UI): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39882873 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39882873 -> https://github.com/TruncateGame/Truncate https://github.com/TruncateGame/Truncate (MIT)
porphyra 1y ago
Even if it does exist, it may not use the "Scrabble" trademark, making it difficult to search for. For example, one time I forgot what Woogles was called and had trouble finding it again since it doesn't mention Scrabble at any point. I had to use an LLM to remind myself what it was called.

CamperBob2 1y ago

Don't do what I just did, and waste several minutes on a puzzle. As soon as you hit "Give up," or presumably submit the valid answer, all it does is say "auth-methods-failed."