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Re:Show HN: Word.rodeo – Custom Word Puzzles by julianwachholz on Monday January 24, 2022 @05:09AM (#30055574)
Yes it's yet another Wordle clone I made as a fun weekend project after I wanted my coworker to guess a word I was thinking of on Friday afternoon!

It supports multiple languages and the word is encrypted in the URL so it's not so easy to see it right away!

Known Bug: The share button sometimes doesn't work, right clicking or long pressing it to copy the URL manually is a workaround for now.

Re:Show HN: Word.rodeo – Custom Word Puzzles by julianwachholz on Monday January 24, 2022 @10:04AM (#30058457)
The bug has been fixed now! Big mistake making the click handler use event.target without checking if you've hit the svg element instead.
Re:Show HN: Word.rodeo – Custom Word Puzzles by dalmo3 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:42PM (#30076954)
That's fun! I made up a word and sent the link to my brother. He got it right on the first guess! Had the biggest laugh in a long time.

Perhaps you could add a "surprise" flag when creating a game that just hides the info panel so that the guessers don't know it was you who picked the word.

Re:Show HN: Word.rodeo – Custom Word Puzzles by jmtucu on Monday January 24, 2022 @06:08AM (#30056088)
Great idea! Try to connect now to a dictionary to avoid enter words like AEIOU :)
Re:Show HN: Word.rodeo – Custom Word Puzzles by julianwachholz on Monday January 24, 2022 @06:56AM (#30056527)
Thank you! I thought about this but I think it would blow up the size of the page or make it slow because each guess had to be validated against an API?
Re:Show HN: Word.rodeo – Custom Word Puzzles by iwangulenko on Monday January 24, 2022 @02:42AM (#30054613)
well done as usual julian, keep going