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Show HN: Crossle – Scrabble meets crossword game
Hello HN,
I created Crossle after playing a dice version of this once. it's web/mobile only with mechanics similar to wordle. the object is to create a crossword using scrabble words that is fully connected and each word is at least 3 characters long. all letters must be used. Fun weekend coding project that I'd love to get any feedback on.
thanks!
- neilsharma425 7mo agoCute idea. The constraint that all letters must be used is what makes this interesting over just a free-form crossword builder since it turns it into a proper puzzle. How do you handle validation? Specifically, are you checking connectivity with a union-find or just flood fill from an arbitrary starting tile?
- enahs-sf 7mo agowe just check connectivity on the front-end kind of naively by ensuring each square is adjacent to another. is that union-find? I didn't do well in algorithms class..
- AlexeyBelov 7mo agoLLM comment history.
- dylanhouli 7mo agoNice and simple. Might just be me but a way to move groups of tiles on the board could be helpful, I accidentally started building too low down and had to move everything at one point.
- selixe_ 7mo agoFun concept and clean design very good game. :)
- enahs-sf 7mo agoThanks. Enjoy playing!
- beardyw 7mo agoPresumably you choose the letters with a solution in mind, otherwise it might be impossible.
- enahs-sf 7mo agoSo the lions share of the work was building a solver and then iterating through the solution space to come up with puzzles. All of them are solvable. It’s on my todo list to classify them based on difficulty and potentially add variable difficulty levels by the day.
- agadi1993 7mo agoCool game…excited to try tomorrow.
- enahs-sf 7mo agothanks! this is what i'm hoping for!
- sjezewski 7mo agoHey pretty fun I can see it getting addictive
- enahs-sf 7mo agoboss makes a dollar, i make a dime, thats why i do casual gaming on company time.
- maxnew 7mo agoThis seems quite interesting... I'll give it a try