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Show HN: Five Letters – word puzzle game
- dankwizard 5y agoEverything is a subscription these days.
- ganessh 5y agoIt was fun until I found the answers in the IndexedDB, https://imgur.com/a/N7QyZUW https://imgur.com/a/N7QyZUW
- sigvef 5y agoThat's for the stats feature that shows you e.g. your most guessed word, etc. It's all calculatated client-side. In fact, there is no backend at all!
- powerlanguage 5y agoWordle creator here. Nice work! Love the touch of showing word definitions after each guess. This is something I wanted to do but ultimately avoided in favor of keeping it all client side. Interesting to hear about your subscription exploration too. Will keep that in mind if I ever decide to try and monetize.
- l8nite 5y agoLoving your game! Thanks for making it :)
- sigvef 5y agoI came across https://bert.org/2021/11/24/the-best-starting-word-in-wordle/ https://bert.org/2021/11/24/the-best-starting-word-in-wordle... on HN the other day, and decided to do my own take on the concept as a little weekend project.
- sigvef 5y agoTechnology-wise, I wanted to try out two things that I hadn't tried before for this project. One was to use Expo to release on web and mobile at the same time. I've used React Native quite a bit in a professional capacity, so I wanted to check out the Expo landscape. I discovered that the web part (react native web) didn't quite deliver on what I was looking for, so I scrapped it and ported to Vite/react-ts and dropped native completely. The other was to see if I could find a low-friction way of setting up subscriptions for a static web frontend with no first party backend. That is the reason why there is a premium subscription tier for a small weekend game like this. Turns out that this was pretty straight forward with Gumroad! In the end, I was pretty happy with the way the flow turned out (except that Apple Pay isn't supported without stepping out of the flow and heading to Gumroad directly).
- huhtenberg 5y agoIt's 2048 vs Threes again. What you did is highly unethical - it's a blatant rip-off, with no credit to the original AND it's a for-profit. Shame on you OP. Flagged.
- beepy 5y agoThis - and Wordle - are games that existed before the internet. I played this on paper as a child.
- MisterSandman 5y agoIt is not "highly ethical", this game has existed for decades. That's like saying Candy Crush copied Bejeweled; neither games were origina.
- huhtenberg 5y agoThe exactly-five-letter word guesser that includes virtual keyboard that paints keys as hints as the game progresses? After explicitly mentioning in a comment that the game was derived from Wordle - "I came across https://bert.org/2021/11/24/the-best-starting-word-in-wordle https://bert.org/2021/11/24/the-best-starting-word-in-wordle... on HN the other day". The OP now added "About", with weasel-worded reference to Wordle. Jesus. How hard is it to just acknowledge other people's work that you are directly borrowing from.
- kwertyoowiyop 5y agoDoes it work on an iPad? I can’t figure it out.
- sizzzzlerz 5y agoI just finished playing it on my ipad. Worked flawlessly.
- kwertyoowiyop 5y agoIt does actually work flawlessly. Turns out I didn’t understand the rules.
- greenpizza13 5y ago3$ a month for a word game. It's a sad thing. We've really lost our way with the subscriptions.
- tlholaday 5y ago$3 is twelve plays at a 25¢ arcade game.
- Joker_vD 5y agoYeah, buying a newspaper with a crossword on the last page is (well, used to) be way cheaper. But think of ecology! Ditching printing the news on paper in exchange for spending more electricity on charging your phones probably helped it. Maybe. Did it?
- jtokoph 5y agoI actually really enjoyed this. I don’t want to subscribe but I would pay up to $5 for an iOS version
- throw12489 5y agoIf you like this, you might enjoy wordsudoku.win , it's a cross between word puzzle and sudoku. And it's free.
- beepy 5y agoI have an iOS game based on the same root game but with a different spin — let me know if you'd be willing to be a beta tester.
- indigodaddy 5y agoI’d love to try it!
- aldonius 5y agoVery nice! One hour later...
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- stratosgear 5y agoWho copied who here? https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/ https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
- huhtenberg 5y agoBased on the polish of Wordle alone, clearly the OP did.
- d--b 5y agoThese are both copies of TV game called “lingo” which apparently first aired in 1987. All I know is that it was quite popular in France where it was called “Motus”
- nickcw 5y agoFun! Apparently doesn't have the word "topsy" in its dictionary though. Perhaps this isn't a US English word. It's not in SOWPODS but is in the app I use for help with cryptic crosswords. What dictionary does it use?
- sigvef 5y agoIt uses the scrabble dictionary (SOWPODS, as you mention) -- if it is a playable five-letter word in scrabble, then it is playable here.
- I_complete_me 5y agoI got to _love and tried clove and glove. Neither were the answer. Anyone?
- tiepoul 5y agoA fun game, but it is not definitely worth the subscription. You can find other alternatives that have a greater value but at the same time are enjoyable and free.
- d--b 5y agoThe only way to monetize this is to make it an ios/android app, and have ads in it or sell it for $.99