by EPendragon on 6/23/25, 3:55 PM
by flipnotyk on 6/10/25, 9:12 PM
I got "Negociate" after like 20 tries, the spelling of which I've never seen. I ended up using the hints to figure it out. When I clicked on the link of the word it took me to a "No results found for negociate!" page on Dictionary.com. Pretty frustrating, might want to double check your word list.
by csnizik on 6/11/25, 1:51 AM
Very clever idea! It's difficult to come up with an original idea for a word game, but you seem to have done it. If there's one like this, I haven't seen it.
The only issue I noticed was there seems to be some lag on printing some of the results. Maybe memoizing some repetitive functions might help, if you're not already.
Nice work!
by salamanderman on 6/11/25, 1:06 AM
Bisection search the game, but honestly was fun to play with my partner multiple times.
by jmpavlec on 6/10/25, 8:20 PM
A little presumptuous to say it is the world's "favorite" guessing game... But I had fun for a few words. It was nice you could press the enter key on mobile and keep the keyboard up.
Are you thinking of doing a daily word? Or just a random dictionary word each time you refresh?
by tmulc18 on 6/11/25, 5:25 PM
Would be more fun (even if you call it "easy mode") if you had the alphabet at the top of the page! Took me 17 tries to get "prepare" but I had a lot of mistakes because I forgot what came after what in the alphabet.
by radpanda on 6/10/25, 8:31 PM
I think I prefer alphaguess.com’s simpler interface
by ynac on 6/11/25, 4:23 AM
I got "forth" in five guesses, first game. Which makes me feel like I'm psychic! Which would be really cool, but is it just matching the first two letters of the word or something? I'm usually terrible at these until I understand how they work.
by veganjay on 6/11/25, 2:06 PM
by cardamomo on 6/10/25, 9:43 PM
Fun game! It stopped responding when I got close to guessing the secret word, though. Then I refreshed the page, and my progress was lost. With a little bit more polish, I think I can add this to my daily game rotation!
by glaucon on 6/10/25, 9:37 PM
I typed 'mountain' (without the quotes), pressed "GO" and I got a tooltip saying "only letters a-z are allowed" . This is Firefox/Windows.
by pardner on 6/10/25, 8:52 PM
Nicely implemented screen layout. Curious if you've thought of reporting metrics showing how many guesses it's taking people? (I got 'volatile' in 9)
by gcr on 6/11/25, 1:13 PM
It’s incredibly frustrating that only the first letter is highlighted. I was guessing tons of SU… and SV… words, but only the S had visual feedback. Bug?
by aqme28 on 6/10/25, 9:06 PM
Pretty cool!
Obviously the best strategy is binary search, but it's pretty hard to figure out the best choice for that on the fly.
by sarpdag on 6/10/25, 9:09 PM
It was fun. I don't know if I would play again or not, but played 2 times without losing focus.
by layer8 on 6/10/25, 11:14 PM
I didn’t now that binary search is the world’s favorite guessing game. ;)