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Show HN: Zanagrams

https://zanagrams.com/
63•pompomsheep•3h ago

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almara•2h ago
Fun! I like how the puzzle naturally gets easier as you solve it. How do you decide which words to include?
pompomsheep•2h 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

blfr•2h ago
I like that it also handles words that aren't planned in. You get a nice "bonus word" popout.
msla•2h ago
Yeah, I got "TUNS" as a bonus word.
smitty1e•1h ago
Not sure how to vote for it, though.
philsnow•50m ago
Yeah tuns (a word well known to homebrewers) is not as esoteric as yttria (a word known to.. chemists?)
NDlurker•2h ago
Cool game. Snus isn't in the word list btw

Found six bonus words.

cryptoboy2283•2h ago
https://zanagrams.com/puzzles/5.json
urostrstenjak•2h ago
Interesting game! Is this an original idea? Is there plan to add "endless" number of zanagrams?
msla•2h 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

jasonpeacock•1h ago
It’s basically Ribbit from Puzzmo, which is fine because reimplementations let you experiment with different gameplay.

https://www.puzzmo.com

abound•1h ago
Came here to say this, Ribbit is a lot of fun, and Puzzmo in general is a really solid site.
em-bee•1h 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)
iKlsR•1h ago
Pretty fun, took me about 10 minutes but found 24 words 10 of them bonus. This was #5 for future viewers.

Edit: welp, spent another 15 mins and managed to solve the previous 4. Currently whipping up a custom version for myself that gives a new set of words related to a theme on each solve, love it.

mateenah•55m ago
pretty cool. how are you deciding or generating puzzles ?
purple-leafy•35m ago
Cool game! Well that’s a sign I need to launch my word game this week if any
ctenb•24m ago
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.
moomin•22m ago
Feels very like Squaredle.

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