Show HN: Zanagrams

(zanagrams.com)

36 points | by pompomsheep 2 hours ago ago

12 comments

  • jasonpeacock an hour ago

    It’s basically Ribbit from Puzzmo, which is fine because reimplementations let you experiment with different gameplay.

    https://www.puzzmo.com

    • abound 44 minutes ago

      Came here to say this, Ribbit is a lot of fun, and Puzzmo in general is a really solid site.

  • em-bee 41 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 an hour ago

    I like that it also handles words that aren't planned in. You get a nice "bonus word" popout.

    • msla an hour ago

      Yeah, I got "TUNS" as a bonus word.

      • smitty1e 38 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 an hour ago
  • NDlurker an hour ago

    Cool game. Snus isn't in the word list btw

    Found six bonus words.

  • urostrstenjak an hour ago

    Interesting game! Is this an original idea? Is there plan to add "endless" number of zanagrams?

  • msla an 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