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56 pointsby pompomsheeptoday at 3:26 PM18 commentsview on HN

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ctenbtoday at 6:22 PM

Cool that they list the definitions of the words afterwards. This makes it even more fun for non-native speakers, as it adds a free learning aspect to it.

moomintoday at 6:24 PM

Feels very like Squaredle.

jasonpeacocktoday at 4:50 PM

It’s basically Ribbit from Puzzmo, which is fine because reimplementations let you experiment with different gameplay.

https://www.puzzmo.com

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purple-leafytoday at 6:12 PM

Cool game! Well that’s a sign I need to launch my word game this week if any

iKlsRtoday at 5:46 PM

Pretty fun, took me about 10 minutes but found 24 words 10 of them bonus. This was #5 for future viewers.

em-beetoday at 5:05 PM

the score should include how many bonus words you found (out of how many there were in total) and instead of time it should count how many tries you made because technically you could brute force this and try all combinations. counting each try would eliminate that (for anyone trying to get a high score)

NDlurkertoday at 4:21 PM

Cool game. Snus isn't in the word list btw

Found six bonus words.

blfrtoday at 4:20 PM

I like that it also handles words that aren't planned in. You get a nice "bonus word" popout.

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almaratoday at 3:47 PM

Fun! I like how the puzzle naturally gets easier as you solve it. How do you decide which words to include?

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mateenahtoday at 5:51 PM

pretty cool. how are you deciding or generating puzzles ?

urostrstenjaktoday at 4:31 PM

Interesting game! Is this an original idea? Is there plan to add "endless" number of zanagrams?

mslatoday at 4:33 PM

There are a couple of games like this on Android I play:

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.vayunmathur.gam...

https://github.com/plhosk/wordtracer

They're both on FDroid

aevvtoday at 4:52 PM

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