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I was thinking about ways to make it more challenging, maybe using 5 letters word, 6... messing with how many edits you…",{"value":53,"source":47,"evidence":54},"About a day, per the maker's prototype note.",[55],{"id":50,"by":11,"text":51},[],"unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":61,"objections":90,"requests":128,"questions":150,"alternatives":159},[62,82],{"value":63,"source":64,"evidence":65},"Fun, addictive concept; reminds commenters of Wordle","commenter",[66,70,74,78],{"id":67,"by":68,"text":69},"48675199","shwetarkadam257","Reminds me of wordle , fun concept!",{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},"48668514","omeysalvi","Nice very entertaining",{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},"48671192","mgianluc","love it",{"id":79,"by":80,"text":81},"48687053","JeelVankhede","Wow! amazing concept! I couldn't score much for the very first time but I kept going again and again. Good way to find out how many words one can construct. Some ideas if you are…",{"value":83,"source":64,"evidence":84},"Good for vocabulary and learning English",[85,89],{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"48682530","hasudon7171","That's interesting.My native language is not English, so I can study English words throught this site",{"id":79,"by":80,"text":81},[91,102,117],{"value":92,"source":64,"evidence":93},"Gets repetitive; easy once a word allows many first-letter changes",[94,98],{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"48667217","tty456","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…",{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"48675178","quuxplusone","+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,…",{"value":103,"source":64,"evidence":104},"Dictionary accepts some odd words like 'ment' and 'bapt' rejected; 'liam' and 'larp' missing",[105,109,113],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"48670047","asimovDev","Is 'ment' a word? I had 'went' and wrote 'ment' on a whim and it accepted it and I was quite surprised. https:\u002F\u002Fwww.merriam-webster.com\u002Fdictionary\u002Fment according to…",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"48680977","nathan03","\"liam\" isn't in the dictionary?",{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"48667298","tim-projects","LARP wasn't in the dictionary. I feel cheated.",{"value":118,"source":64,"evidence":119},"Mobile keyboard handling is tedious",[120,124],{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"48667840","nosioptar","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…",{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"48670191","shmeeed","FF on Android: my keyboard doesn't auti-hide and covers the check button, I need to hide it manually each time.",[129,135,139,143],{"value":130,"source":64,"evidence":131},"Add a hard mode, e.g. change letters in different positions or vary word length",[132,133,134],{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},{"id":79,"by":80,"text":81},{"id":50,"by":11,"text":51},{"value":136,"source":64,"evidence":137},"Add timer challenges or multiplayer with friends",[138],{"id":79,"by":80,"text":81},{"value":140,"source":64,"evidence":141},"Enemy AI that chases the player",[142],{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},{"value":144,"source":64,"evidence":145},"Show the full chain at the end with definitions or Wiktionary links",[146],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"48674121","vova_hn2","I wish it would show the whole chain in the end, perhaps augmented with dictionary meanings or links to Wiktionary.",[151],{"value":152,"source":64,"evidence":153},"Is a given word valid, such as 'ment'?",[154,155],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},{"id":156,"by":157,"text":158},"48672999","LearnYouALisp","Oxford (an \"exhaustive\" dictionary) has several transitive verbs: https:\u002F\u002Fwww.oed.com\u002Fsearch\u002Fdictionary\u002F?scope=Entries&q=ment",[160,171],{"value":161,"source":64,"evidence":162},"Poople (poople.io)",[163,167],{"id":164,"by":165,"text":166},"48677180","saulpw","I played Poople for a few months, same concept but with an actual goal achievable in a few minutes. https:\u002F\u002Fpoople.com\u002F",{"id":168,"by":169,"text":170},"48695751","liberix","It seems this is the right url: https:\u002F\u002Fpoople.io\u002F",{"value":172,"source":64,"evidence":173},"Wordle",[174],{"id":67,"by":68,"text":69},{"comments":176,"answered":41,"key":177},8,[178,179,182],{"id":50,"text":51},{"id":180,"text":181},"48651609","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. 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