isc.ro - Hackdot

Re:isc.ro by porphyra on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @10:02PM (#43991150)

isc.ro is one of the most old school, classic, and beloved Scrabble servers, but its implementation is really outdated and has some notable vulnerabilities/bugs. For example, the rack tiles seem to be randomly generated on the clientside, and passwords are plaintext. For a modern alternative, woogles.io is much nicer.

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Re:isc.ro by mdaniel on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @10:30PM (#43991267)

Submitted quite a while ago, if you wanted to resubmit it for its own discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24789018

Also, for convenience: https://woogles.io

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Re:isc.ro by thomasfromcdnjs on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @11:22PM (#43991518)

I love scrabble, it may be going through a growth spurt at the moment, kind of like chess after all the netflix movies.

Everyone should follow Will Anderson, he runs an extremely high quality Youtube channel -> https://www.youtube.com/@wanderer15

Even if you don't play often, his scrabble videos are fantastic to watch on a lunch break.

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My friends and I are playing around with vibe coding a 4+ multi player scrabble, surprisingly it doesn't really exist. (hasbro is extremely tight on their copyright)

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Re:isc.ro by wdumaresq on Thursday May 15, 2025 @09:55AM (#43995131)

I made a multi-player (up to 12 players) Scrabble-like game. Everyone submits their turn at the same time so there are no long waits between turns. It's a "capture territory with words" game.

http://crosswordislandhopper.com/cih

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Re:isc.ro by mdaniel on Thursday May 15, 2025 @11:25AM (#43996014)

The capturing territory part reminds me of Truncate which I absolutely love (and absolutely hate the UI): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39882873 -> https://github.com/TruncateGame/Truncate (MIT)

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Re:isc.ro by porphyra on Thursday May 15, 2025 @01:23PM (#43997216)

Even if it does exist, it may not use the "Scrabble" trademark, making it difficult to search for. For example, one time I forgot what Woogles was called and had trouble finding it again since it doesn't mention Scrabble at any point. I had to use an LLM to remind myself what it was called.

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Re:isc.ro by rahimnathwani on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @11:04PM (#43991426)

Woogles is nice.

The board looks like a regular scrabble board, but the special squares are indicated only with colours, and don't say 'Triple Word Score' etc. like on the real Scrabble board. When you hover over a square, you see the bonus as '2x letter' etc.

This behaviour is fine for experienced players, but not for children or beginners, especially those playing on iPads, which don't have 'hover'.

I made a userscript to fix this:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/508773-woogles-bonus-label...

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Re:isc.ro by CamperBob2 on Thursday May 15, 2025 @12:34AM (#43991869)

Don't do what I just did, and waste several minutes on a puzzle. As soon as you hit "Give up," or presumably submit the valid answer, all it does is say "auth-methods-failed."

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Re:isc.ro by cdelsolar on Thursday May 15, 2025 @09:19PM (#44000968)

I cofounded and built a large part of woogles. It’s free software (https://github.com/woogles-io/liwords)… AMA

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