Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?

hn111 · 2025-04-05T16:00:02 1743868802

Very nice! On iOS it does not seem to register fast consecutive taps correctly, if that’s fixed I would actually like to play this more often

soneca · 2025-04-05T15:56:12 1743868572

I think it has some potential, but I found today’s puzzle just too easy. I never play for speed, but even if I was, playing on a iPhone, it missed a lot of touches that I only noticed when I was typing a few letters ahead. So I had to come back, erase what I typed and start over. It was annoying already, but if I was playing for speed, it would be a deal breaker.

linsomniac · 2025-04-05T15:52:56 1743868376

A coworker and my wife and I have recently been really enjoying 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.

dlgeek · 2025-04-05T15:48:16 1743868096

SPOILERS AHEAD

Today's challenge ("Sports Teams") was particularly easy because each one was plural. That made each one "unscramble a 4 letter word" instead of a 5. Might be a consideration for the future.

mcintyre1994 · 2025-04-05T15:46:40 1743868000

Neat! I played a few days :) the only issue I had was that I found it quite easy to tap a previously selected letter, and that’d mess me up especially if it wasn’t the last letter so far in that word. I think it’d probably be better to add a backspace button in addition to the clear one, and not deselect letters by tapping them.

carmela219 · 2025-04-05T15:54:43 1743868483

Whatsit Daily Challenge Completed in: 0:23

#1 (0:05) #2 (0:04) #3 (0:05) #4 (0:04) #5 (0:05)

https://www.whatsit.today/

12907835202 · 2025-04-05T15:45:36 1743867936

Whatsit Daily Challenge Completed in: 2:43

#5 (1:18) #3 (0:04) #4 (0:46) #1 (0:27) #2 (0:09)

https://www.whatsit.today/

upmostly · 2025-04-05T15:46:55 1743868015

This could be incredible. Kind of like Strands on NY Times but in Wordle format.

1123581321 · 2025-04-05T15:45:41 1743867941

It’s fun! There is occasionally out of order input on mobile when tapping quickly.

card_zero · 2025-04-05T15:50:41 1743868241

It said LOINS is "not a valid word".

echoangle · 2025-04-05T15:54:14 1743868454

And you disagree? LOINS is a professional sports team? Or should the message say „not the correct word“ because loins is a „valid word“ but not the one asked?

GilbertErik · 2025-04-05T15:53:59 1743868439

There's no professional sports team (the category for the day) called the 'LOINS'

card_zero · 2025-04-05T15:56:06 1743868566

Oh. Well, I don't like sports of any kind. Except ones with robots. And stone skipping. And maybe indoor bowls if it doesn't get too intense.

danhau · 2025-04-05T15:53:54 1743868434

LIONS

Hackbraten · 2025-04-05T15:20:41 1743866441

Nice work, especially the minimalistic user interface. It runs fine on my low-powered smartphone, which is good.

noelpotnic · 2025-04-05T14:33:01 1743863581

Whatsit Daily Challenge Completed in: 1:26

#5 (0:46) #2 (0:04) #4 (0:09) #1 (0:21) #3 (0:06)

https://www.whatsit.today/

mouse_ · 2025-04-05T15:47:20 1743868040

25 seconds here

i feel smug

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