Show HN: Zanagrams (zanagrams.com)

• jasonpeacock 2 hours ago

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

https://www.puzzmo.com

• abound an hour ago

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

• purple-leafy 9 minutes ago

Cool game! Well that’s a sign I need to launch my word game this week if any

• iKlsR 35 minutes ago

Pretty fun, took me about 10 minutes but found 24 words 10 of them bonus. This was #5 for future viewers.

• em-bee an hour 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)

• NDlurker 2 hours ago

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

Found six bonus words.

• blfr 2 hours ago

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

• msla 2 hours ago

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

• philsnow 25 minutes ago

Yeah tuns (a word well known to homebrewers) is not as esoteric as yttria (a word known to.. chemists?)

• smitty1e an hour ago

Not sure how to vote for it, though.

• almara 3 hours ago

Fun! I like how the puzzle naturally gets easier as you solve it. How do you decide which words to include?

• pompomsheep 3 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

• mateenah 30 minutes ago

pretty cool. how are you deciding or generating puzzles ?

• cryptoboy2283 2 hours ago
• urostrstenjak 2 hours ago

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

• msla 2 hours 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