alt Hacker NewsShow HN: Wordit – Change One Letter, Keep the Chain Going
Hi everyone,
I got this idea for a game where, starting from a four letter word you need to go as deep as you can in your vocabulary, changing only one letter per word.
bear -> beer -> peer...
Each correct word gives you 1 point
Each incorrect word takes one life away from you, you start with 3
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This sort of thing was a favourite in puzzle books except you had to get to the end word.
Fun play!
I soon realized get to a nice word where the first letter can be replaced alot like "buck".
Nice very entertaining
The keyboard control on mobile is tedious. Have to tap in letter box to get keyboard, keyboard disappears after entering letter, have to repeat for each letter. It'd be a huge improvement to let me type all four letters without exiling my keyboard to mordor.
“bapt” was my starting word.
I was doomed to fail. “bapt” are you kidding?
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Love the concept! Although found it a bit leading of easy answers once I landed on a word where changing the first letter yielded many new words (i.e. word like 'time' yielded many new *ime words, or plural words if ending in an s). Felt repetitive after a while. Perhaps a Hard mode where the next changed letter must be a different position?