alt Hacker NewsI shared this last month, but I’m still having a lot of fun working on it.
I made a daily word puzzle called Tiled Words.
Currently about 2,000 people play every day and I’ve released 59 puzzles!
One feature I’m excited about is crowdsourcing puzzles. Today’s puzzle is a “community puzzle” made entirely from clues that players submitted! I plan to do this every week or two.
I wrote about launching and the first month of puzzles if you want to learn more!
https://paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/a-month-of-tiled-words...
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I'm not really a puzzle fan generally but that is absolutely brilliant!
First time I see such a simple but attractive puzzle. I had to try to reproduce it using my Codorex tool, it's semi-functional needs a few more iterations:
https://codorex.com/shared/zIe6BrLCVfaPt1DuWm1DeyoMIIeTPyed
Congrats on the traction!
I started playing a couple weeks ago (and got my Mum and one of her friends playing too).
I enjoy it, but I find the clues seem a bit too easy, and honestly I'm normally terrible at crosswords. Take that for what you will, totally understandable if you're aiming at "cozy/relaxing".
I appreciate the polish of the UI compared to a lot of the other janky word games out there anyway.
I'd love to learn how you grew your audience so fast! I built https://dailybaffle.com but haven't reached your numbers yet.
Congrats, I liked your game and the level of polish you put into it.
My sister and I are glued to it, and she continues to destroy me, with consistent zero reveals and half the time to complete, as yours truly. We love this game. thanks.
My friend from work showed me this a couple of weeks ago, and now we all play it as a daily office ritual. Great game!
Really fun!
My wife and I play this every day. It's the only fault word games that has ever caught my interest.
The UI is fantastic too.
Just to let you know, my friend and I play this every day since I saw it here a little while back. Thank you!
Dude this rules!! Your animations are fantastic. Nice job and I'm really happy to hear you've got a consistent player base!
I also made a puzzle game in a similar vein slidecross.io
Have been enjoying it daily since I saw it on HN a few weeks ago. Great game!
I do a lot of word games (mostly crosswords.) This is great, congrats on launching!
this is really nice, thanks for sharing!
I really enjoy tiled words, thanks for making this new addition to my daily routine!
Thanks for this game, I've been playing it since you last posted it and it's become a regular in my morning brain wake-up routine of Minute Cryptic, Shuffalo at The New Yorker and a couple others, so I like the bite-size nature of it a lot.