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Show HN: Summary – The daily number game that thinks it's a word game

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Today's puzzle: VISION + PRO = VORTEXEach letter is a unique number. Can you make it all add up?There is a new puzzle each day. Sometimes topical to the day's news, sometimes not. Prior ones, to get an idea of them:MINIMUM + MAXIMUM = EXTREMA LOL + LMAO = FUNNY OSCAR + NOMS = BARBIE DEFAMED + DEFAMED = EXPENSE

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The reason I made this was indeed to get Cartesian coordinates. I needed them to intersperse dot images between data-driven dot arrangements, like in this example: https://bl.ocks.org/alizauf/de25f00bf369010b265362e3e53d6629

The animations interpolate the dots between different XY coordinates.

Creator here. A little background on why I made this and how it could be used to add some whimsy to data visualizations: https://labs.spotify.com/2018/03/02/introducing-coordinator-...
You can find the project itself here: https://spotify.github.io/coordinator/

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