HackerLangs
TopNewTrendsCommentsPastAskShowJobs

pompomsheep

602 karmajoined anno scorso

Submissions

Show HN: 18 Words

18words.com
1,091 points·by pompomsheep·l’altro ieri·348 comments

Show HN: Zanagrams

zanagrams.com
400 points·by pompomsheep·13 giorni fa·107 comments

Show HN: Can you draw a 3 wheeled bicycle?

doodle.wtf
4 points·by pompomsheep·22 giorni fa·0 comments

Show HN: Send a secret photo puzzle

secretjigsaw.com
3 points·by pompomsheep·2 mesi fa·1 comments

[untitled]

1 points·by pompomsheep·2 mesi fa·0 comments

Show HN: Exploding Hamsters

explodinghamsters.com
17 points·by pompomsheep·2 mesi fa·2 comments

Can you tap a marathon faster than Sabastian Sawe?

boredzebra.com
1 points·by pompomsheep·2 mesi fa·0 comments

I made a puzzle game using photos of my dog

snapmatch.com
4 points·by pompomsheep·3 mesi fa·2 comments

100 Jumps

100jumps.org
71 points·by pompomsheep·4 mesi fa·18 comments

368 Chickens

368chickens.com
23 points·by pompomsheep·anno scorso·5 comments

comments

pompomsheep
·16 ore fa·discuss
Logged into the OpenAI platform this morning and had to double check they hadn't pivoted into a crypto company with these new names
pompomsheep
·19 ore fa·discuss
Update:

The game amazingly had 132,411 players yesterday and received tons of player feedback. After a long night talking with players and play testing I’ve shipped the following changes:

.

1. I’ve kept the 30 second timer but you now continue through the whole 18 words to get a final score of x/18.

2. I’ve added a new share feature to better show your result in a similar Wordle style.

.

Thanks again for all the feedback and for checking out the game!
pompomsheep
·l’altro ieri·discuss
This was habit but baith was accepted as well
pompomsheep
·l’altro ieri·discuss
Keyboard input should work!
pompomsheep
·l’altro ieri·discuss
Thanks for playing!
pompomsheep
·l’altro ieri·discuss
My other game! Thanks for playing
pompomsheep
·l’altro ieri·discuss
According to my analytics only 32 people out of 12,145 got all 18 in todays puzzle so far!
pompomsheep
·l’altro ieri·discuss
Haha I've never heard of this but lucky i went with 18
pompomsheep
·l’altro ieri·discuss
Very true and it's a bit lazy.

I'm load a short wordlist first and then the longer version async so it doesn't really affect how long until you can start playing.

Waste of bandwidth is true. Cloudflare pages hates me
pompomsheep
·l’altro ieri·discuss
Thanks everyone for the feedback! Two questions

1. For a version without the timer what would you like to happen if you are just completely stuck on a word? Hints to reveal letters or skip the word?

2. For those who like the timed version would you prefer to continue when you miss a word and then get a final score out of 18?
pompomsheep
·l’altro ieri·discuss
Interesting idea but too many people mistype / mispell on first attempt (mostly me)
pompomsheep
·l’altro ieri·discuss
Ok yes all good examples. Have reverted back ot the large dictionary for now which accepts all these
pompomsheep
·l’altro ieri·discuss
It should have shown you!
pompomsheep
·l’altro ieri·discuss
Yeah its just the single index.html file feel free to download it and adapt
pompomsheep
·l’altro ieri·discuss
Haha yeah the 300k list contains so really obscure stuff
pompomsheep
·l’altro ieri·discuss
Did you find a word that wasn't accepted you thought should be?

I do have another version where it accepts ANY word but I found it quite unsatisfying when I survived by randomly spamming combinations and finding a really obscure word.

So am currently running it against a 20,000 word wordlist instead of my larger 300,000 wordlist
pompomsheep
·l’altro ieri·discuss
Yeah for sure I agree just kept it simple for now but will improve if people like it
pompomsheep
·l’altro ieri·discuss
Thanks! I thought it was fun to throw people straight into the game without instructions but you think it too unclear?
pompomsheep
·l’altro ieri·discuss
Oof yeah thanks! Fixed now
pompomsheep
·12 giorni fa·discuss
Hmm I'm also macOS webkit and can drag no problem. Are you using Safari?

It is also possible to tap each individual letter like you described as an alternative control method but I've found dragging to be more intuitive so is the standard control.

On desktop you can also type the letters with your keyboard ;)