Show HN: Zanagrams

9 comments

• jasonpeacock 48 minutes ago
  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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  • abound 36 minutes ago
    Came here to say this, Ribbit is a lot of fun, and Puzzmo in general is a really solid site.
• em-bee 33 minutes ago
  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)
• blfr 1 hour ago
  I like that it also handles words that aren't planned in. You get a nice "bonus word" popout.
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  • msla 1 hour ago
    Yeah, I got "TUNS" as a bonus word.
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    • smitty1e 30 minutes ago
      Not sure how to vote for it, though.
• almara 1 hour ago
  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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  • pompomsheep 1 hour ago
    Thanks. I use a combination of AI to first score the words by obscurity and then manually decide which ones to include based on this score and my own judgement.

    I then manually test each of the puzzles and throw out any that I feel weren't "fun" to solve for whatever reason
• cryptoboy2283 1 hour ago
  https://zanagrams.com/puzzles/5.json
• NDlurker 1 hour ago
  Cool game. Snus isn't in the word list btw

  Found six bonus words.
• urostrstenjak 1 hour ago
  Interesting game! Is this an original idea? Is there plan to add "endless" number of zanagrams?
• msla 1 hour ago
  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
• aevv 45 minutes ago
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