[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":622},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-48708182":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":5,"line_source":6,"title":7,"url":8,"domain":9,"maker":10,"posted_at":11,"year":12,"points":13,"comments":14,"rank_in_year":15,"shown_in_year":16,"top":17,"tier":18,"category":19,"subcategory":20,"format":21,"keywords":22,"reception":27,"sentiment":28,"stance_mix":29,"scored_comments":34,"aspects":35,"strip":45,"post_text":46,"what":47,"said":63,"maker_in_thread":285,"shape":296,"grid":300,"attempts":582,"same_week":583,"maker_shows":37,"maker_hidden":614,"reader_version":615,"card":616},"48708182","Zanagrams","title","Show HN: Zanagrams","https:\u002F\u002Fzanagrams.com\u002F","zanagrams.com","pompomsheep",1782660374,2026,400,107,86,4366,2,"legend","games","word puzzle game","web_app",[23,24,25,26],"word puzzle","anagram game","word game","daily puzzle","mixed",0.338,{"positive":30,"neutral":31,"mixed":32,"critical":33},37,30,5,10,82,{"idea":36,"docs":39,"design":41,"execution":43},{"positive":37,"critical":38},4,3,{"positive":37,"critical":40},1,{"positive":42,"critical":37},9,{"positive":44,"critical":17},0,[38,32,32,32,38,38,37,38,40,38,38,38,32,32,38,38,32,38,40,38,37,38,38,40,32,32,32,40,38,38,40,32,32,37,40,32,32,32,32,32],null,{"problem":46,"audience":48,"pricing":46,"motivation":46,"time_to_build":46,"stack":60,"openness":61,"stage":62,"team_size":61},{"value":49,"source":50,"evidence":51},"Word puzzle fans","inferred",[52,56],{"id":53,"by":54,"text":55},"48709229","abound","Came here to say this, Ribbit is a lot of fun, and Puzzmo in general is a really solid site.",{"id":57,"by":58,"text":59},"48713756","gus_massa","Nice! I solved the English and the Spanish versions.",[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":64,"objections":110,"requests":174,"questions":227,"alternatives":256},[65,81,88,99],{"value":66,"source":67,"evidence":68},"Fun, addictive and satisfying word game","commenter",[69,73,77],{"id":70,"by":71,"text":72},"48717876","harrisi","A hint would maybe be good. You could highlight the first letter and a direction, for example. The share functionality could be improved. Sharing the score and time to the…",{"id":74,"by":75,"text":76},"48718048","mgianluc","Its addictive :-) Well done",{"id":78,"by":79,"text":80},"48719368","TheLuigiplayer","I love it! I could play games like this for hours :D",{"value":82,"source":67,"evidence":83},"Minimal UI, good copywriting and tasteful animations",[84],{"id":85,"by":86,"text":87},"48714724","sumul","I enjoyed this and loved the minimal UI, good copywriting, and tasteful animations. My brain gets a little bit stuck on words that I can see but aren’t valid because of a missing…",{"value":89,"source":67,"evidence":90},"Definitions shown after puzzles help learning",[91,95],{"id":92,"by":93,"text":94},"48709987","ctenb","Cool that they list the definitions of the words afterwards. This makes it even more fun for non-native speakers, as it adds a free learning aspect to it.",{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},"48710237","a-l-e-c","Simple and fun, appreciate the definitions! Was wondering about ideas for creating a simple game using the vocab list from my koreader app, but will probably need to be a…",{"value":100,"source":67,"evidence":101},"Tutorial is helpful",[102,106],{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"48717433","srdjanr","Tutorial was great! And I would like the option to give up.",{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"48717961","nicbou","The playable tutorial is brilliant. It's a very fun game, well done!",[111,126,141,152,163],{"value":112,"source":67,"evidence":113},"Plural forms of found words make puzzles feel cheap",[114,118,122],{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},"48717989","jllyhill","Damn it, it was the longest word I've already found in plural form :\u002F Not sure this is good puzzle design to be honest",{"id":119,"by":120,"text":121},"48718755","rootlocus","I would try to generate puzzles that don't involve plurals at all. It happened twice that the word I missed was the plural of a word I already found. After finding a word I don't…",{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},"48710663","dpfu","Nice game! I found 20 words. I was a bit stunned by the concept of \"bonus words\". I found that every word should count. Also because some words are just plural forms (e.g.…",{"value":127,"source":67,"evidence":128},"Unclear rules, such as minimum word length and how the game works",[129,133,137],{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},"48711624","saghm","The rules should probably explicitly mention the minimum length of four letters. (It's a reasonable rule; it just wasn't obvious from reading the info in \"how to play\")",{"id":134,"by":135,"text":136},"48710712","acrophiliac","I'm stuck. Does that mean I chose the wrong word earlier and used up an essential letter? Does the sequence of word guesses matter? Is there an Undo feature so I can back up and…",{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"48708812","cryptoboy2283","https:\u002F\u002Fzanagrams.com\u002Fpuzzles\u002F5.json",{"value":142,"source":67,"evidence":143},"No way to give up or reveal answers when stuck",[144,148],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"48710305","iku","Great puzzle! Is there a way to give up and see all the answers? After 20 minutes or so still have 8 words to find. (Not a native English speaker.)",{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},"48719881","addandsubtract","Meanwhile, I'm trying to figure out how to give up, because I can't find any more words. I found 8 (2 bonus ones), and am stuck finding any more. There should be a \"reveal\"…",{"value":153,"source":67,"evidence":154},"Bonus words feel unfair or confusing",[155,156,160],{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},"48712948","stevage","\"bonus words\" are often obscure or embarrassing in some way, so you're not required to find them to win",{"id":161,"by":131,"text":162},"48711874","I also must have a weird vocabulary. \"Fete\" was treated as an uncommon bonus word, which doesn't seem particularly esoteric to me, but \"tarragon\" was one of the ones I needed to…",{"value":164,"source":67,"evidence":165},"Drag controls unclear on some browsers and devices",[166,170],{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},"48719034","butlike","The instructions are unclear for my input device. I'm on a macOS webkit browser, and I have to click each individual letter, _then click one last time after all letters are…",{"id":171,"by":172,"text":173},"48719211","oneeyedpigeon","You can just click the first letter, then drag through the rest. When I moved from mobile to desktop, I also thought it was click-only, but dragging works in Chrome and Safari.",[175,181,200,208,216],{"value":176,"source":67,"evidence":177},"Give up or reveal answers option",[178,179,180],{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},{"value":182,"source":67,"evidence":183},"Scoreboard, timed mode or shareable score with bonus word count",[184,188,192,196],{"id":185,"by":186,"text":187},"48711136","azeirah","You should add a scoreboard! I got zanagram #5 in 3 minutes and 53 seconds. Also found two bonus words I thought I was slow but now I see others took 10 minutes and 20 minutes!…",{"id":189,"by":190,"text":191},"48712384","scamdrill","This was definitely a challenge until I figured out how it works. I originally was confused by the connections and started off embarrassingly slow, but once I got a few words and…",{"id":193,"by":194,"text":195},"48711266","shrx","Cool game! Definitely needs the bonus words counter in the shareable results snippet.",{"id":197,"by":198,"text":199},"48715090","quuxplusone","You might make a wrong guess add a little penalty time to the clock. I agree that the \"share\" representation should include the number of bonus words found. Or just the triple of…",{"value":201,"source":67,"evidence":202},"Hint feature",[203,204],{"id":70,"by":71,"text":72},{"id":205,"by":206,"text":207},"48719979","summarybot","I found #6 unnecessarily difficult. While I personally really enjoy puzzles, primarily logic ones and spelling ones, this melted my brain. Maybe you could add a \"hint\" button…",{"value":209,"source":67,"evidence":210},"More puzzles or endless mode",[211,212],{"id":70,"by":71,"text":72},{"id":213,"by":214,"text":215},"48708892","urostrstenjak","Interesting game! Is this an original idea? Is there plan to add \"endless\" number of zanagrams?",{"value":217,"source":67,"evidence":218},"Track found words and bonus word counter",[219,223],{"id":220,"by":221,"text":222},"48711117","Cyclone_","The only thing I would add would be to keep track of the words already found.",{"id":224,"by":225,"text":226},"48710942","heystefan","Love this! Added to bookmarks. Wish it had a counter for bonus words so I know if I missed them.",[228,243,250],{"value":229,"source":67,"evidence":230},"How are puzzles generated and chosen",[231,235,239],{"id":232,"by":233,"text":234},"48717465","ollybee","How is the puzzle generation? can you fully automate generating good puzzles or do you tune them by hand? I really enjoyed this, and hope to continue doing so.",{"id":236,"by":237,"text":238},"48708411","almara","Fun! I like how the puzzle naturally gets easier as you solve it. How do you decide which words to include?",{"id":240,"by":241,"text":242},"48709679","mateenah","pretty cool. how are you deciding or generating puzzles ?",{"value":244,"source":67,"evidence":245},"Which dictionary is used",[246],{"id":247,"by":248,"text":249},"48713639","jcuenod","Having made a word game myself[0], this was highly entertaining! Thanks :) What dictionary are you using? [0] https:\u002F\u002Fjcuenod.github.io\u002Fphrase-maze-poc\u002F",{"value":251,"source":67,"evidence":252},"Is there a way to lose",[253],{"id":254,"by":168,"text":255},"48719119","Is there any way to lose? With the letters disappearing after they're no longer used, I feel this becomes an exercise in attrition instead of a game.",[257,264,271,278],{"value":258,"source":67,"evidence":259},"Puzzmo Ribbit",[260],{"id":261,"by":262,"text":263},"48709091","jasonpeacock","It’s basically Ribbit from Puzzmo, which is fine because reimplementations let you experiment with different gameplay. https:\u002F\u002Fwww.puzzmo.com",{"value":265,"source":67,"evidence":266},"Squaredle",[267],{"id":268,"by":269,"text":270},"48710005","moomin","Feels very like Squaredle.",{"value":272,"source":67,"evidence":273},"NYT word games",[274],{"id":275,"by":276,"text":277},"48740439","jhedlund","Bookmarked the site! It is a fun puzzle, NYT should add it to their games.",{"value":279,"source":67,"evidence":280},"Word Maker and WordTracer Android apps",[281],{"id":282,"by":283,"text":284},"48708912","msla","There are a couple of games like this on Android I play: https:\u002F\u002Fapt.izzysoft.de\u002Ffdroid\u002Findex\u002Fapk\u002Fcom.vayunmathur.games.wordmaker?repo=main https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fplhosk\u002Fwordtracer…",{"comments":33,"answered":38,"key":286},[287,290,293],{"id":288,"text":289},"48717370","Wow, this post blew up! Thank you everyone for all the helpful feedback. I’ve just deployed a few updates: ``` - Added a short playable tutorial for new players to learn how the…",{"id":291,"text":292},"48718489","Thanks for the feedback. Do you think finding plural should automatically find the root word as well?",{"id":294,"text":295},"48717419","This was helpful feedback thank you. 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