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Show HN: Zanagrams (zanagrams.com)
jasonpeacock 42 minutes ago [-]
It’s basically Ribbit from Puzzmo, which is fine because reimplementations let you experiment with different gameplay.

https://www.puzzmo.com

abound 30 minutes ago [-]
Came here to say this, Ribbit is a lot of fun, and Puzzmo in general is a really solid site.
em-bee 27 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 hours ago [-]
I like that it also handles words that aren't planned in. You get a nice "bonus word" popout.
1 hours ago [-]
msla 1 hours ago [-]
Yeah, I got "TUNS" as a bonus word.
smitty1e 24 minutes ago [-]
Not sure how to vote for it, though.
almara 2 hours ago [-]
Fun! I like how the puzzle naturally gets easier as you solve it. How do you decide which words to include?
pompomsheep 2 hours 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 hours ago [-]
urostrstenjak 1 hours ago [-]
Interesting game! Is this an original idea? Is there plan to add "endless" number of zanagrams?
NDlurker 1 hours ago [-]
Cool game. Snus isn't in the word list btw

Found six bonus words.

msla 59 minutes 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 40 minutes ago [-]
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