[HN Gopher] 23words.com
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23words.com
Author : puzzledpenguin
Score : 235 points
Date : 2024-06-10 14:30 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| HenryBemis wrote:
| I survived all 23 words, "Top 1% of players today".
|
| Don't chase the letters with the mouse, you can type on your
| keyboard and hit backspace to shave off some seconds.
| tgv wrote:
| What was RITDF then?
| 2snakes wrote:
| Drift
| SamBam wrote:
| 22 here, top 3%.
|
| I like this, may add it to my daily set, but it's a little
| stressful.
|
| I'd like a Clear option that doesn't involve a Del key.
| catapart wrote:
| Fun! And fast!
|
| I didn't realize it reset for every word, so I was worried I was
| done on 8 words, but by getting that one at the wire, I was able
| to limp to 17.
|
| At least for today's words, it was a reasonable difficulty ramp,
| and a pretty easy experience! If I had one note it's that
| clicking the text of a letter doesn't remove that letter from the
| word (while clicking the background of a letter DOES remove it).
|
| Anyway, thanks for making/publishing this!
| sdwr wrote:
| Yeah the escalating difficulty is very well done, the tension
| ratcheted up bit by bit.
|
| Got to 21
| tatumj wrote:
| That was super fun, works great with keyboard. Fingers crossed
| for a seven-figure NYT acquisition :)
| eddd-ddde wrote:
| Is that how it works? Can you really "own" IP of something as
| simple?
|
| I thought anyone could implement their own without having to
| pay the original.
| furyofantares wrote:
| You'd need to grow super super large so they'd want to
| acquire you for your audience.
| jimbobthrowawy wrote:
| Josh Wardle really lucked out by both accidentally having the
| best name for that game, and it hitting a cultural firestorm
| quite quickly. IIRC, NYT are mostly going after other
| implementations if they have similar names.
| percivalPep wrote:
| Excellent! Got stumped on 10 but brain wasn't in gear. Tomorrow
| will be better!
| MisterBastahrd wrote:
| Is there a key to clear a word automatically? Seems the space bar
| would work well.
| RheingoldRiver wrote:
| This makes me miss the original Text Twist, I would love if
| someone knows how I can play it still.
|
| In the original Text Twist, the shorter words were all in a
| specified order relative to the word order in the final word. For
| example, if the word was BIOPIC then TOP comes before TOPIC comes
| before TIC comes before OPT comes before POT. BIT would be the
| first word, and COT would be the last.
|
| (technically it was exactly opposite that, they were sorted in
| reverse of the order in which they appear in the final word, but
| that's harder to explain)
|
| With Text Twist 2 I guess they decided that was a bug not a
| feature (it was definitely a feature not a bug) and the order of
| the smaller words is now randomized. That one small change took
| the game from something I'd spend hours on to not even a little
| bit fun.
|
| Anyway to me this was pretty easy, I got all 23. I thought the
| letter order was very revealing on some of the later clues (like
| KINGDOM was almost entirely in order already) but maybe that was
| deliberate, anagramming a 7-letter word in 30s can be a bit hard
|
| One big piece of feedback, though: pressing enter should always
| clear your current letters (as in text twist)
| dtjb wrote:
| I like quick low-stakes browser games like this, something fun
| and fast to wake up your brain with morning coffee. If
| interested, here are some others I've come across -
|
| Linxicon - build bridges between two words (https://linxicon.com)
|
| WhenTaken - use clues to guess where and when a photo was taken
| (https://whentaken.com)
|
| Angle - guess the exact arc angle (https://angle.wtf)
|
| Metazooa - deduce the animal species (https://metazooa.com)
|
| Tradle - guess the country by its exports
| (https://games.oec.world/en/tradle)
|
| Globle - find the country by proximity (https://globle-game.com)
| askl wrote:
| FoodGuessr - guess the country of origin for some dish
| (https://www.foodguessr.com/)
| ebiester wrote:
| That's a good way to start regional wars.
| 0x00cl wrote:
| I'd like to add:
|
| Betweenle - Guess the secret word between two words
| (https://betweenle.com/)
| Dragonai wrote:
| I'm loving this one! Thanks for sharing :)
| slig wrote:
| Shameless plug:
|
| Logiquiz - Self Referential Logic Puzzle
| (https://www.logiquiz.com/)
|
| Zebra Puzzles - Daily Zebra Puzzles
| (https://www.zebrapuzzles.com/)
| welcome_dragon wrote:
| Zebra puzzles could use a pencil feature and also column
| labels
| islewis wrote:
| > Globle
|
| Similar to Globle is Worldle - https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
| ygra wrote:
| And while we're on the globe: https://travle.earth/
| costco wrote:
| Tradle is too easy. I want a version where you have to guess by
| imports.
| tylerjaywood wrote:
| You could also try
|
| Chrono - arrange historical events in chronological order
| (https://chrono.quest)
| Tallain wrote:
| Adding to the list:
|
| Puzzmo - collection of daily puzzles, including crossword,
| really bad chess, and more (https://www.puzzmo.com/)
| LordDragonfang wrote:
| +1 for Metazooa. It's one of my favorites in my daily line up.
| They also have the (IMO much harder) MetaFlora for plants
| (https://flora.metazooa.com/)
|
| Also on my list:
|
| - Hashtag wordle
| (https://everydaypuzzlesgame.com/g/hashtag/index.html)
|
| - NYT Connections (https://www.nytimes.com/games/connections)
| fellInchoate wrote:
| If we're doing self promotion, I'll mention a game I made based
| on Levenshtein's distance, https://wordistance.com --
|
| (hints enabled by default, but the real game is without them!)
| semi-extrinsic wrote:
| Tried the angle.wtf one, but it seems to be stuck at one angle
| only (320deg) on both browsers I tried on mobile, and it never
| progresses?
| Two9A wrote:
| Many of these types of games are daily, so I'd expect it's a
| different angle tomorrow.
|
| (Thanks for the hint.)
| 3D39739091 wrote:
| Speller - Alphabetize as many words as you can in 60 seconds.
| (https://1-800-rad-dude.com/speller/)
|
| Every user gets the same word list, words change daily.
| aukspot wrote:
| I've been compiling a bunch of daily games over the past 4
| months at https://dles.aukspot.com with all these games and
| about 200 more, if you're interested!
|
| This one could be a good addition.
| pempem wrote:
| Oh! I love a good list! Esp something like geo which is a
| skill that keeps fading the less I use it.
| ericsink wrote:
| Shameless self-promotion:
|
| https://wordmax.game
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| Released for public preview just today.
|
| Game play similar to Scrabble, but played "duplicate" style.
|
| Admittedly not exactly "quick low-stakes".
| nathell wrote:
| Self-promo: not a daily challenge, but a quick word game
| https://danieljanus.pl/wladcyslow/
| cpeterso wrote:
| > Angle - guess the exact arc angle (https://angle.wtf)
|
| I won't spoil today's Angle answer, but it seems like the game
| should only offer angles less than 180 degrees.
| beardyw wrote:
| Apart from the domain name, is this the same as
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40536488
| johnmaguire wrote:
| I got all the words. Fun game, but it felt kind of easy.
|
| Is there a keyboard shortcut to shuffle? I tried space to no
| avail.
| jimbobthrowawy wrote:
| Shift key. Disable stickykeys in advance.
| zomglings wrote:
| Fantastic game. Kudos.
| jmholla wrote:
| This needs to capture the backspace key so it doesn't send you
| back a page. Wordle used to have this problem. In the meantime,
| opening this in a fresh tab should help.
| johnmaguire wrote:
| I didn't have this issue in Firefox on macOS. What browser are
| you using?
| spencerchubb wrote:
| I like this concept. Wordle is very fun but I never liked how it
| was constrained to five letters. It felt like my brain was
| becoming very fluent in 5 letter words but not other words
| sam1r wrote:
| The immediate key-bindings are super clutch + simple.
|
| So much fun on desktop. A nice faded history with strikethrough
| attempts (optional), would be neat on the UI front.
| nabakin wrote:
| Only thing I would change is the shuffling of characters is
| different for each user which can give a user an advantage over
| another depending on how they happen shuffle for them
| almara wrote:
| Love it! I would like the possibility to keep trying when I fail.
| Z_Z wrote:
| agreed, an endless mode would be nice. perhaps it's not
| implemented by-design to keep us coming back - it's certainly
| going to work on me. opening the game in a new private tab will
| let you make another attempt :)
| saaaaaam wrote:
| Great fun. Good work!
| zachmu wrote:
| Nice try but "basket" is obviously not a real word
| milliams wrote:
| It would be nice if when you fail, it tells you the answer rather
| than switching screens.
| aniviacat wrote:
| It does tell you the answer
| stevefolta wrote:
| Too bad the keyboard doesn't work (Firefox with "Search for text
| when you start typing" on). They didn't do the
| "event.preventDefault(); event.stopPropagation();" dance.
| jagged-chisel wrote:
| Naturally. You have enabled a setting for Firefox to intercept
| the keystrokes before the web page even gets a chance to see
| them. That means the JavaScript to prevent default action would
| never run.
| huvarda wrote:
| got 21/23. Pretty fun!
| xutopia wrote:
| I have a feeling that this game on a touch device is way faster
| than having to move your mouse around and click!
| Braxton_Hicks wrote:
| Keyboard is very fast for this.
| paxys wrote:
| Yet another fun game that will die because it tried to replicate
| the "one game a day" model for no reason. I like it, and want to
| play more. Why can't I? At the very least let me go back and
| retry the words that I missed? Not everything has to be Wordle.
| allknowingfrog wrote:
| I share your frustration, but not your confidence that it will
| impact the success of the game. The "daily challenge" format,
| though annoying, does seem to hook people.
| stack_framer wrote:
| I found myself wanting to shuffle with the spacebar (so I
| wouldn't have to move my pinky fingers from A and L in order to
| shuffle with a shift key).
| iamtedd wrote:
| The countdown to the next puzzle is in the negative and is
| counting up. FYI, I'm not in North America.
| jefarmstrong wrote:
| Ok, I'll be shameless and throw my mine in: https://summit-
| puzzle.me
| savanaly wrote:
| I've got a math game to share too!
| https://www.tristanpendergrass.com/pretty-good-math/
| littlekey wrote:
| Fun! When you lose, I'd like to see the answer(s) for that letter
| combo.
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