Re:Show HN: Vowl daily word guessing game
by asvitkine on Friday December 29, 2023 @11:58PM
(#38812920)
When you guess a vowel that's repeated in the answer, it counts all the occurrences.
Re:Show HN: Vowl daily word guessing game
by Kiro on Saturday December 30, 2023 @05:40AM
(#38814192)
That makes no sense. Can someone please just tell me the word?
Re:Show HN: Vowl daily word guessing game
by stevage on Saturday December 30, 2023 @06:52AM
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It does make sense. It's just counter intuitive and not the way most puzzle games work.
It makes it quite hard. I'm not sure if it's a good hard or a bad hard yet.
Re:Show HN: Vowl daily word guessing game
by matryer on Saturday December 30, 2023 @12:59PM
(#38817149)
I think you're right - I've updated the rules - give it a go and let me know. Thanks for the feedback.
Today's 'transportation' puzzle had 4 consonants & 4 vowels. I got to a guess (nonsense string) whose feedback was 4 vowels correct, 4 consonants correct. (Not sharing here to avoid spoiling for others.)
After becoming frustrated that I couldn't devise a word using those letters, I entered them into online word-finders like those for Scrabble or the Internet Anagram Server – and they're not turning up any single 8-letter word/words (transportation related or not, compound or not) that might be the answer.
Maybe brands? No luck.
Show to wife, she makes suggestion that's similar to the 8 letters I've been trying, but differs in one vowel. Bingo.
So: it was telling me I had 4 vowels correct even when I was supplying a vowel NOT present in the answer.
(A rot13 of a string it erroneously told me had 4 vowels and 4 consonants correct: ZNEBHVYA)