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Discussion (27 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews

hasudon7171β€’6 minutes ago
That's interesting.My native language is not English, so I can study English words throught this site
tty456β€’1 day ago
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?
quuxplusoneβ€’about 13 hours ago
+1. It felt very mechanical running through "bard, card, hard, lard, nard, pard, sard, ward, ware, care, dare, fare, hare, mare, nare, pare, tare, bare, bark, dark, hark, lark, mark, nark, park, sark,..." Definitely feels like something a computer could do better than a human. (And the leaderboard confirms it.)

But switching the traversal order to "bard, bare, care, card, hard, hare, dare, dark, hark, hart, cart,..." doesn't seem to make it any more fun.

My suggestion would be to add an "enemy AI" following its own trajectory toward you; your job then is not just to walk around as long as possible, but to stay at least one step ahead of the enemy for a long as possible.

The enemy might not move just one step per turn; it might do something like "stand still for 3 turns, then change 2 letters in a single turn."

Showing the enemy's words to the player would also increase the "discoverability" of paths in the game. The player could say "Oh, apparently NARD is a valid word! I'll remember that for next time."

atum47β€’1 day ago
thanks, the whole thing were prototyped in a day or so. I was thinking about ways to make it more challenging, maybe using 5 letters word, 6... messing with how many edits you get.

I was going under surgery on the day I released this, cause it was my first time going under general anesthesia and i was freaking out. it was a rush against the time to release as is. now that I'm recovering i'll work on it some more.

thanks for the feed back

atum47β€’about 6 hours ago
Can paxcodex write a few words on how he got a score of 6472? I'm recovering from surgery and it is hard for me to do anything now, even type.
saulpwβ€’about 11 hours ago
I played Poople for a few months, same concept but with an actual goal achievable in a few minutes.

https://poople.com/

asimovDevβ€’about 22 hours ago
Is 'ment' a word? I had 'went' and wrote 'ment' on a whim and it accepted it and I was quite surprised.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ment

according to Merriam-Webster it's only a suffix

LearnYouALispβ€’about 16 hours ago
Oxford (an "exhaustive" dictionary) has several transitive verbs:

https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=ment

vova_hn2β€’about 15 hours ago
I wish it would show the whole chain in the end, perhaps augmented with dictionary meanings or links to Wiktionary.
atum47β€’about 14 hours ago
that can be done
nathan03β€’about 5 hours ago
"liam" isn't in the dictionary?
uberexβ€’2 days ago
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".

atum47β€’2 days ago
After the initial prototype, I was playing to see if the game was fun, I realized that from time to time you can get a whole new word by changing one letter. I'm glad you liked it
shwetarkadam257β€’about 13 hours ago
Reminds me of wordle , fun concept!
tim-projectsβ€’1 day ago
LARP wasn't in the dictionary. I feel cheated.
atum47β€’1 day ago
don't blame me, I used the biggest dictionary I could find
omeysalviβ€’1 day ago
Nice very entertaining
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nosioptarβ€’1 day ago
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.
atum47β€’1 day ago
You're not supposed to type more than one letter. You click the box you want to edit, type the letter you want to change and click check.
shmeeedβ€’about 22 hours ago
FF on Android: my keyboard doesn't auti-hide and covers the check button, I need to hide it manually each time.
nosioptarβ€’1 day ago
Oh, that makes more sense.
mgianlucβ€’about 19 hours ago
love it
atum47β€’about 14 hours ago
thank you
naikrovekβ€’1 day ago
β€œbapt” was my starting word.

I was doomed to fail. β€œbapt” are you kidding?

rothosβ€’1 day ago
rapt, rape, rare, dare, ...
naikrovekβ€’about 17 hours ago
"rapt" dammit. oh well. me and words are not on friendly terms. never have been.
quuxplusoneβ€’about 14 hours ago
Or bait (or probably baht or batt).